Effectiveness of Positive Thinking Training Program on Nurses’ Quality of Work Life through Smartphone Applications

Abstract

Aim Job stress is a part of nurses' professional life that causes the decrease of the nurses' job satisfaction and quality of work life. This study aimed to determine the effect of positive thinking via social media applications on the nurses' quality of work life. Methods This was a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study design with a control group. The samples were selected among the nurses in two hospitals in Fasa University of Medical Sciences and divided randomly into two interventional (n = 50) and control (n = 50) groups. Positive thinking training through telegrams was sent to the intervention group during a period of 3 months. Data were collected by using Brooks and Anderson's questionnaire of work life quality and analyzed by SPSS 18. Results The mean total scores of pretest and posttest in the intervention group improved noticeably and there were significant differences between mean scores of quality of work life in pretest and posttest scores in interventional groups (p < 0.001) and in dimensions of work life quality, home life (p < 0.001), work design (p < 0.001), work context (p < 0.001), and work world (p = 0.003). Conclusion This study concluded that positive thinking training via social media application enhanced nurses' quality of work life. This study is necessary to carry out on a larger sample size for generalizing findings better.

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“…In other words, more experienced nurses less frequently used the rumination strategies. This is in line with the findings of an earlier study which showed that nurses with limited work experience suffered from higher levels of occupational stress [33]. Another finding of the present study was the direct significant correlation of acceptance strategies with work experience so that nurses with higher work experience more frequently used this strategy.…”

Effectiveness of Lifestyle Health Promotion Interventions for Nurses: A Systematic Review

“…smoking education; see below for smoking cessation interventions) or had education as an element of a more complex or combined intervention. Education provision typically related to coping with stress (n = 19) [55,59,60,65,69,72,75,76,[84][85][86]91,92,[94][95][96]102,106,110], emotion regulation (n = 8) [56,73,74,90,99,100,105,109], communication skills (n = 2) [56,89], positive thinking/positive intervention (n = 4) [79,101,103,107], searching for meaning (n = 1) [108], compassion fatigue/burnout (n = 8) [66,70,71,[80][81][82]87,93], the selection optimisation compensation (SOC) model (n = 2) [57,62], self-care (n = 5) [61,63,77,…”

“…Life (Brooks and Anderson's scale [103]), the Team Building Questionnaire [179], the Job Diagnostic Survey [108], and the Benefits of Working (Benefits Finding Scale [108]).…”

“…Thirty-two studies included at least one work-related or organisational outcome measure. Sixteen studies [68,73,76,87,92,95,103,104,108,120,130,135,139,160,179,190] showed positive effects on work-related outcomes, such as productivity and work ability [76,95,104,130,160,190], patient moving and handling procedures [68], sickness absence [130,160], presenteeism [139], management skills [73], workplace social capital [120], work satisfaction and/or attitude towards colleagues [87,135], work engagement ( [92], measured by UWES-9), quality of work-life balance [103], team building ( [179], as measured by self-report), work fatigue [104], and perception of work benefits [108]. Of the 16 studies reporting improvements in work-related or organisational outcomes, only eight were RCTs [76,92,108,120,130,135,139,190], three were controlled studies [1...…”

“…Of the 16 studies reporting improvements in work-related or organisational outcomes, only eight were RCTs [76,92,108,120,130,135,139,190], three were controlled studies [103,160,179] and five were uncontrolled studies [68,73,87,95,104]. Interventions resulting in improved work-related outcomes used: (i) some form of education (improved productivity, better patient care, management skills, work-life balance, seeing benefits of work) [68,73,92,95,103,104,108], (ii) dietary supplements (reduced presenteeism) [139], (iii) music group sessions (improved team building) [179], (iv) meditation with relaxation/education (improved productivity, sickness days, work engagement, job satisfaction) [87,160], (v) physical activity (improved job satisfaction, work ability, work social capital) and/or education/mindfulness [76,120,130,135], and (vi) workplace health screening (improved work functioning [190]).…”