The Impact of a Resilience-based Intervention on Emotional Regulation, Grit and Life Satisfaction: A Comparative Study Between Egyptian and Saudi Nursing Students

Nursing students may be perceived as having a stable college experience because they have a relatively clear career goal and a higher employment rate than students in other majors, but they consistently report that their heavy study loads, frequent exams, and clinical practice cause them to feel more stressed and depressed than students in other majors (Chernomas & Shapiro 2013, Lee & Jang 2021). Focusing on emotional events that have a direct impact on nursing students' learning and the college experience is crucial to their psychological wellbeing (Lee & Jang 2021). In order to improve the emotional experiences and life satisfaction of nursing students, it is crucial to determine the factors that affect their emotions.

Study Overview

• Status: Recruiting
• Conditions: Resilience-based Intervention, Emotional Regulation, Grit and Life Satisfaction
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Resilience-based intervention

Detailed Description

A constructivist and grounded theory design was recently used to create a model of resilience for nursing students (Reyes et al. 2015). Three steps represent how resilience is experienced, according to the "Pushing Through" model of resilience: first, "stepping into," or embracing, the adversity. The second is "staying the course," or understanding that they must keep working toward their objectives. Finally, "acknowledge" what they have learned from their difficulties and how they feel prepared to face new challenges. Additionally, students had brief obstacles, such as 'disengaging' from class because they felt overburdened. This paradigm serves as a lens to illustrate how, despite facing challenges, resilience can be developed over time. There is early support for encouraging resilience in nursing students before they begin their professions given the data linking resilience to burnout in nursing students

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 120
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Mahmoud Khedr, Lecturer; Phone Number: 002 +201206137019; Email: mahmoud.khedr@alexu.edu.eg
• Study Contact Backup: Name: Eman Taha, professoer; Phone Number: 01224240754; Email: eman.taha@alexu.edu.eg

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Alexandria, Egypt
    • Recruiting
    • Faculty of Nursing
    • Contact: Eman Taha, professor; Phone Number: 01283440749; Email: eman.taha@alexu.edu.eg

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• nursing students who are willing to participate in the study and don't have any psychiatric illnesses

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those who refuse to participate in the study, nursing students with psychiatric illnesses

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention group; 60 students (30 nursing students in alexandria- 30 nursing students in Saudi). They will participate in resilience based intervention	Behavioral: Resilience-based intervention; resilience-based intervention is a curriculum that offers a careful selection of evidence-based exercises to build coping skills and promote thriving. The resilience-based intervention philosophy is that there are many routes to achieving greater resiliency. Each participants choose from a menu of exercises in the areas of goal-setting, emotional skills, social connection, health, meaning, and self-talk. The ability to choose exercises that fit their specific goals, interests, and schedules is important, because the most effective strategies are the ones that people actually do, which tend to be the ones that are most enjoyable and personally relevant. No single practice is going to work for everyone regardless of its proven benefits. resilience-based intervention makes improving well-being accessible, manageable and fun, by introducing a variety of bite-sized, exercises that participants can experiment with and find what works for them.
No Intervention: Control group; 60 students (30 nursing students in alexandria- 30 nursing students in Saudi). They will not participate in resilience based intervention

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)	It is a 10-item self-report scale designed to assess the habitual use of two commonly used strategies to alter emotion: cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. Participants respond to each item using a 7-point Likert scale ranging from 1 n(strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). Cognitive reappraisal involves thinking differently about a situation in order to change its meaning in order to alter one's emotional experience. Expressive suppression involves decreasing the outward expression of emotion. Six items contribute to the subscale for cognitive reappraisal (e.g., "When I'm faced with a stressful situation, I make myself think about it in a way that helps me stay calm"). Four items contribute to the subscale for expressive suppression (e.g., "When I am feeling negative emotions, I make sure not to express them") (Gross, & John 2003).	2 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Alexandria University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 2, 2023
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): August 1, 2023
• Study Completion (Anticipated): August 5, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 12, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 12, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): April 25, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 25, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 12, 2023
• Last Verified: April 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 4112023

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No