Effect of passage meditation program on nurses' level of hope and resilience who caring for patients with COVID 19

Abstract

Background: COVID-19 is an acute resolved disease but it can also be deadly, with a 2% case fatality rate. Health care workers are the frontline soldiers against COVID-19. They experienced fear, high level of stress, fatigue, grief and anxiety during facing pandemic. So, development and application of a meditative program that consistent with our culture can be valuable to control and overcome stress, building resilience and hope. Aim: To evaluate the effect of passage meditation program on nurses' level of hope and resilience who working with COVID 19 patients. Subjects and method: Study Design: A quasi-experimental, pre-post-test design was utilized in the current study. The study was conducted at Tanta chest hospital affiliated to Ministry of health. It was an online study through using Google forms (Google drive). Subjects: All of nurses (fifty nurses) working at Tanta chest hospital. Tools: two tools were used to gather data for this research, Hearth hope scale and the brief resilience scale (BRS). Method: a WhatsApp group were introduced for all nurses, the studied nurses were divided into five subgroups; each subgroup encompassed 10 nurses. Each subgroup was attending a total of 6 sessions. These sessions were scheduled as 3 sessions per week for duration of 2 weeks. Each session was lasted for about an hour. Results: there is a positive statistically significant relationship between the nurse total resilience score and hope score. Conclusion: the passage meditation program was effective in elevation hope level and improving resilience among nurses Recommendation: the current study suggested, the global nursing organizations work on drafting effective and proactive nurses' human-factor guidelines and network that embeds human factor as a dynamic shock absorber.

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