The effect of resilience psychoeducation program based on positive psychotherapy on nurses' resilience and balanced life skills

This study was conducted to determine the effect of Positive Psychotherapy Based Resilience Program on the resilience of nurses. The research was designed as a mixed randomized controlled and phenomenological study. In the study, randomized controlled experimental research design with pretest-posttest-follow-up approach, "in-depth interview technique" from qualitative methods was employed to determine nurses' balanced utilization of life energies and balanced life skills. The research was conducted between May 2023 and December 2023 at Düzce University Research and Application Hospital. The sample of the study consisted of 66 nurses (intervention group=31, control group=35) who consented to participate in the study as a result of the power analysis and fulfilled the sampling criteria. The quantitative data of the study were collected through "Personal Information Form" and "Resilience Scale for Adults" as pre-test, post-test and follow-up test. Qualitative data were obtained through in-depth interviews with 14 volunteer nurses who completed the program. The quantitative data of the study were analyzed through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 25.0 software package. As a result of the analyses, in the sub-dimension measurements of the Resilience Scale for Adults, there was a significant difference in family harmony in the experimental group, between groups, in terms of time and group-time interaction. In the total score of resilience, there was a low significant difference between the groups and a high significant difference in the experimental group according to time (p<0.05). In the analysis of qualitative data, the statements of the participants were deciphered in the computer environment without any change. The codes were grouped according to the integrity of meaning and main themes and sub-themes were formed to represent these codes. A total of 6 main themes were reached: life balance, genuine abilities, key conflict, challenging life events, general evaluation of the program and 5 years later. In line with these results, it is believed that the Positive Psychotherapy-Based Resilience Program is effective in developing resilience of nurses and learning and utilizing balanced life skills, and it is recommended that the program should be implemented to increase the resilience of nurses and assist them to develop balanced life skills.