Resilience Training Based Nursing Intervention: Its effect on Depressive Symptoms, Coping styles and Resilience among Patients with Depression

Abstract

Background: Patients with depression often experience a feeling of disconnectedness as a consequence of the symptomatology of the disorder. Resilience may offer the link for those with a mental illness to move from disconnectedness to connectedness. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of resilience training based nursing intervention on depressive symptoms, coping styles, and resilience among patients with depression. Design: Quasi-experimental design two groups study and control was used to achieve the aim of this study. Subjects: A purposive sample of 64 patients with depression was selected for this study. Results: there was a negative significant correlation between the total score of depressive symptoms and with both resilience, and adaptive coping styles respectively, pre-intervention. There was also a statistically significant difference in the reduction of both severe and moderate depressive symptoms post-intervention compared to the control group. There was a statistically significant difference in increasing of the mean total score of resilience and adaptive coping post-intervention compared to the control group. Conclusion: Resilience training based nursing intervention was effective in improving depressive symptoms, resilience, and coping styles. Recommendations: resilience training-based nursing intervention should be applied for all depressed patients and other psychiatric disorders to improve their resilience and adaptive coping leading to improvement of symptoms severity in return