Title

Enhancing critical thinking and emotional coping of nursing students through life skills training

Authors

Buvaneswari Ramakrishnan^1,* & Juliet Sylvia²

Affiliation

¹Department of Psychiatric Nursing, KMCH College of Nursing, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu - 641048; India; ²Department of Community health Nursing, Alagappa College of Nursing, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu - 630003; India; *Corresponding author

Email

Buvaneswari Ramakrishnan - E - mail: buvaneswari@ kmchcon.ac.in

Juliet Sylvia - E - mail: Juliet Sylvia.72@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received December 1, 2024; Revised December 31, 2024; Accepted December 31, 2024, Published December 31, 2024

Abstract

In the dynamic healthcare landscape, nurses must develop life skills beyond clinical expertise to provide effective patient care and ensure professional growth. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a structured life skills training program for first-year B.Sc. Nursing students in Tamil Nadu, India. This true experimental pretest-posttest design study was conducted in six randomly selected nursing colleges in Trichy district, Tamil Nadu. The sample included 257 first-year B.Sc. Nursing students, with 126 in the experimental group and 131 in the control group. The eight-week Life Skills Training Program consisted of weekly two-hour sessions. The experimental group showed significant improvements in critical thinking (F=64.26, p<0.001), decision making (F=35.02, p<0.001), problem solving (F=77.54, p<0.001) and coping with emotions (F=39.03, p<0.001) compared to the control group. Associations were found between life skills and socio-demographic variables such as the number of friends, hobbies, reason for choosing nursing and interest in the course.

Keywords

Critical thinking, emotional coping Life skills training, nursing students

Citation

Ramakrishnan & Sylvia, Bioinformation 20(12): 2091-2095 (2024)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.