Highlights
- •Nursing students experience higher levels of stress than average college students.
- •Poetry-based therapies significantly reduce the stress levels of nursing students.
- •Poetry-based therapies effectively enhance ego-resilience of nursing students.
Abstract
This quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group pretest–posttest study developed
a 10-session group poetry therapy program for nursing students and examined effects
on clinical training, job-seeking stress, anxiety, ego-resilience, and psychological
well-being. Forty-nine nursing students were conveniently recruited (experimental
group n = 24, control group n = 25). Program construction used the Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation,
and Evaluation model and Mazza's poetry therapy practice model. Compared to the control
group, the experimental group showed significant decreases in stress and anxiety and
significant improvements in ego-resilience and psychological well-being immediately
after intervention, maintained at 5-week follow-up. The program can be a beneficial
intervention for individuals experiencing various degrees of stress.
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Publication history
Published online: August 03, 2022
Accepted:
July 31,
2022
Received in revised form:
July 24,
2022
Received:
January 28,
2022
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