Effectiveness of a Nursing Intervention for Nurses Have Experienced Trauma: a Study Based on Swanson's Caring Theory

Effectiveness of a Nursing Intervention for Nurses Have Experienced Trauma: a Study Based on Swanson's Caring Theory

This study aimed to (1) develop an internet-based psychiatric nursing intervention, based on Swanson's theory of caring, and (2) examine its effects on functional health, resilience, social support, post-traumatic stress, depression, and anxiety.

This study was a randomized clinical trial(RCT) study with repeated measures to identify the effectiveness of an internet-based psychiatric nursing intervention. Participants were evaluated at the following time points: pre-test (pre), post-test (post-test 1, immediately after intervention), and follow-up (post-test 2, one month after the intervention) to assess the sustainability of the internet-based psychiatric nursing intervention.

Of the 112 women who enrolled in the study, 10 dropped out before post-test 1, resulting in 102 participants who completed all interventions and surveys.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. nurse aged from 23 to 40 years
2. a PTS score of 64 or lower on the PTSD checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) developed by Weathers et al., revised by Weathers et al., and translated into Korean by Kim et al.,
3. nurse who can access the program through a computer or mobile
4. nurse who understand the purpose of the research and voluntarily agree to participate in the research.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. presence of psychiatric conditions with hallucinations and delusions
2. diagnosis of an intellectual disability that would make understanding the intervention procedure difficult. Although a standard cut-off was not present in the PCL-5, women who exceeded 80% (64 points) of the total score were excluded to rule out high-risk women with severe trauma.