Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services最新文献

Purpose: The impact of daily living often results in unimaginable stress for children, which can be exhibited as lack of self-control. Children with decreased self-regulation are often not successful in school. Many schools do not have the resources needed to employ professionals who could provide programs to improve self-regulation. Creative programs that can be implemented into the classroom without disrupting the school day are needed. The current article describes a resiliency program that was implemented in a school setting to increase self-regulation.

Method: This pilot project used descriptive statistics to analyze the feasibility of incorporating resiliency skills into an elementary school curriculum and the resulting impact on self-regulation among school-aged children.

Results: Improvements were identified in self-esteem, compassion, and classroom behavior.

Conclusion: Implementing resiliency skills into the curriculum can result in positive outcomes by improving self-regulation in school-aged children. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 63(1), 31-38.].

Purpose: To determine the recovery notion among individuals with schizophrenia and their families in Eastern Turkey.

Method: A descriptive phenomenological study was performed. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted, and data were analyzed using Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis.

Results: Three themes were revealed-Meaning of Recovery, which emphasizes a multifaceted definition of recovery based on the individual's and family's experiences; Necessities of Recovery, emphasizing the requirements of recovery from the individual's and family's perspectives (e.g., treatment adherence, support of health care professionals); and Recovery Journey, which emphasizes the dynamic aspect of the recovery process from the individual's perspective.

Conclusion: Individuals with schizophrenia are able to define their own recovery and self-determined recovery goals, which will enable them to evaluate treatment outcomes. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, xx(xx), xx-xx.].

Purpose: To assess the prevalence of workplace violence (WPV) and investigate factors that contribute to psychological distress among psychiatric nurses in Jordan.

Method: In this cross-sectional, correlational study, a convenience sampling technique was used to recruit 190 psychiatric nurses.

Results: Mean scores for WPV and psychological distress were 13.22 (SD = 2.51) and 56.11 (SD = 23.29), respectively. All psychiatric nurses reported incidences of verbal aggression from patients and their families, and a significant majority (92.6%) admitted to experiencing physical violence in the past year. For every unit increase in WPV scores, there was an average increase of 0.631 points in psychological distress (p < 0.001).

Conclusion: Findings suggest that psychiatric nurses working in psychiatric hospitals experience a high level of WPV, resulting in moderate psychological distress. It is suggested to enhance nurses' knowledge regarding the risk factors of WPV to decrease the occurrence of this phenomenon. Furthermore, implementing educational initiatives designed to support psychiatric nurses in alleviating psychological distress resulting from WPV would yield positive outcomes. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, xx(xx), xx-xx.].

In the aftermath of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, increasing attention has been drawn to the physical and emotional demands of mental health professionals (MHPs) navigating workplace stressors with limited coping mechanisms. As a result, MHPs themselves are at increased risk for developing burnout and mental health disorders, including anxiety and depression. In addition, these emotional strains have impacted professional performance and career satisfaction, which poses significant challenges to the profession and patient outcomes. Cognitive flexibility (CF) is a cognitive-behavioral tool that is well-known for scaffolding resilience, encouraging self-awareness, and ameliorating workplace stressors and burnout. CF is also a teachable skill that uses many methods to encourage pre-frontal cortex neuroplasticity and practice. The current brief overview provides simple yet effective tools to enhance CF and safeguard the mental health and well-being of MHPs in the clinical setting. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, xx(xx), xx-xx.].

Purpose: To examine the concept of self-esteem among African American and Latinx adolescents with overweight and/or obesity and depressive symptoms in the United States.

Method: Using key terms in CINAHL, PubMed, and PsycINFO databases, an initial search yielded 371 articles; after examining title, abstract, and full text, 33 articles remained. The concept of adolescent self-esteem was analyzed using Rodger's evolutionary method.

Results: Several antecedents of self-esteem in this context were identified, including bullying, negative portrayal in the media, stressors and hassles, low socioeconomic status, dieting, and family dietary influences. Attributes identified were body image and misperception, body image dissatisfaction, diminished social status, and isolation. Consequences included stigma, somatic complaints, decreased earnings over a lifetime, decreased quality of life, lower educational attainment over a lifetime, and increased substance use. Increased self-esteem, increased number of friends, and in-depth friendships were associated with a lower risk of being overweight or obese.

Conclusion: Adolescent self-esteem varied based on gender, racial and ethnic group, and changed over time in the African American population but remained static in the Latinx population. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 62(12), 17-25.].

Purpose: To investigate self-stigma among individuals with schizophrenia, identify potential categories of self-stigma, and analyze the association between self-stigma categories and dimensions of disease perception.

Method: Convenience sampling was used to select individuals with schizophrenia (N = 216) in psychiatric hospitals. A General Demographic Information Questionnaire, the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Inventory, and Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire were used for data collection. A latent profile analysis was performed on self-stigma characteristics of participants, and potential categories of influencing factors and their relationship with illness perception were examined.

Results: Participants were classified into three potential categories: low self-stigma-low resistance (19.4%), medium self-stigma (55.6%), and high self-stigma-high discrimination (25%). Compared with the low self-stigma-low resistance group, those with higher illness representation and illness understanding scores were more likely to be classified as medium self-stigma, and emotional representation was the strongest predictor for high self-stigma-high discrimination.

Conclusion: Self-stigma among participants was mostly medium to high. Self-stigma of individuals with schizophrenia demonstrates group heterogeneity; therefore, nurses should formulate targeted interventions based on the characteristics of each category to achieve precise interventions and reduce self-stigma. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 62(12), 27-36.].