Yan D, Chen L, Li M, Zhang Y, Zhang Y. Reducing anxiety and enhancing innovation in nurses: a psychological capital intervention study in China.
BMC Nurs 2025;
24:204. [PMID:
39987103 PMCID:
PMC11847354 DOI:
10.1186/s12912-025-02838-y]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2024] [Accepted: 02/12/2025] [Indexed: 02/24/2025] Open
Abstract
AIM
This study aimed to test whether increasing psychological capital through psychological capital interventions affects anxiety and innovation among nursing staff through an experimental study.
METHOD
This study utilized a two-group (experimental and wait-list control) pre-test and post-test design. In August 2022, eighty clinical nurses from the same hospital were randomly assigned to either the experimental group (40) or the wait-list control group (40) to complete self-report questionnaires at pre-intervention (T1), post-intervention (T2), and one month post-intervention (T3). The experimental group received a 6-week training on the psychological capital intervention.
RESULT
The scores of anxiety, psychological capital, and innovative behaviour of experimental subjects in the two groups before and after the intervention showed no significant difference in between-group effects (P > 0.05). In contrast, the time effect and between-group × time effect were significant (P < 0.05), and the trends of anxiety, psychological capital and innovative behaviour over time differed between the two groups of nurses.
CONCLUSION
Online psychological capital interventions can weaken the constraints of time and space to maximize the effective development of nursing staff's psychological capital, reduce anxiety, and improve nurses' innovative behaviors.
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