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 disconnectednessas a consequence of the symptomatology of the disorder. Resilience may offer the link forthose with a mental illness to move from disconnectedness to connectedness. The aim of thisstudy was to evaluate the effect of resilience training based nursing intervention ondepressivesymptoms,copingstyles,andresilienceamongpatientswithdepression. Design: Quasi-experimental design two groups study and control was used toachieve the aim of this study. Subjects: A purposive sample of 64 patients with depressionwas selected for this study. Results: there was a negative significant correlation between thetotal score of depressive symptoms and with both resilience, and adaptive coping stylesrespectively, pre-intervention. There was also a statistically significant difference in thereduction of both severe and moderate depressive symptoms post-intervention compared tothe control group. There was a statistically significant difference in increasing of the meantotal score of resilience and adaptive coping post-intervention compared to the controlgroup. Conclusion: Resilience training based nursing intervention was effective inimproving depressive symptoms, resilience, and coping styles. Recommendations:resilience training-based nursing intervention should be applied for all depressed patients andother psychiatric disorders to improve their resilience and adaptive coping leading toimprovement of symptoms severity in return