Inforcing Spiritual Care: Enhancing Well-Being and Competency in Psychiatric Nurses
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: spiritual care education program.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Well-being, Competence. Basic parameters: 20 years — 60 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Egypt
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
In Forcing Spiritual Care: Enhancing Well-Being and Competency in Psychiatric Nurses
Overview
This study was done to evaluate the effectiveness of spiritual care education program in enhancing the well-being and competency of psychiatric nurses.
Detailed description
After explaining the aim of the study, an official permission from the aforementioned psychiatric institutions will acquired to carry out the study. In order to prevent conflicts with regular hospital nursing shifts, the study team had arranged the instructional sessions with the head of nurses. Nursing who fulfilled the qualifying requirements and gave their verbal, informed consent was taken by the researchers. Nurses completed the self-administered data collection sheet. The self-administered questionnaire was completed in 15-20 minutes on average. The pre-test questionnaire was first given to both groups prior to the start of the educational session in order to gather data. The post-test was administered using the same pretest questionnaire.
Intervention of spiritual care education/training program For eight weeks, the intervention group participated in a spiritual care education program that aimed to improve their ability to provide spiritual care. Program orientation, an introduction to spiritual care, the concepts of spiritual care, the significance of spiritual care, the theoretical underpinnings of spirituality in mental health, practical strategies for integrating spiritual care in psychiatric nursing, reflective practice, and self-care for enhancing personal spirituality were all covered in the program's weekly two-hour sessions. Throughout the study period, the control group received no intervention and carried on with their regular nursing practice without any further instruction.
The baseline (pre-intervention) questionnaire was given simultaneously to the intervention and control groups in order to gather data at two different times. A questionnaire measuring spiritual well-being and spiritual care competency was filled out by both groups. The filled surveys were gathered by the study team. Both the intervention and control groups received the immediately post-intervention questionnaire simultaneously, right after the educational program concluded.
Interventions
- Other spiritual care education program
The spiritual care education program to improve nurses ability to provide spiritual care. Education includes; Program orientation, an introduction to spiritual care, the concepts of spiritual care, the significance of spiritual care, the theoretical underpinnings of spirituality in mental health, practical strategies for integrating spiritual care in psychiatric nursing, reflective practice, and self-care for enhancing personal spirituality were all covered in the program's weekly two-hour sessi
Primary outcome measures
- Spiritual Care Competence [Time frame: 8 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Spiritual Well-Being [Time frame: 8 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
The participants of this study were 98 psychiatric nurses working in previously mentioned psychiatric settings and who fulfilled the following inclusion criteria as both male and female, had one year of experience in psychiatric care, willingness to participate in the study and provide informed consent and did not enroll in any ongoing spiritual care-related training.
Exclusion criteria
Nurses refused to participate Nurses not on the full duty
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
Study locations
Egypt · 1 center
- Faculty of Nursing — Port Said
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06815419 · Du Rec no 46