Mindfulness for Nurses' Psychological Health

Background: Nurses who worked with patients with COVID-19 in hospitals have experienced several threatening and challenging situations, negatively affecting psychological health. M-health-based mindfulness-based interventions were found to improve psychological health in various populations. Aim: The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a m-Health-based mindfulness-based intervention on anxiety, depression, stress among Jordanian registered nurses taking care of COVID-19 patients. Methodology: The study was conducted using a pretest post-test randomized controlled design. One hundred and two nurses were recruited from a Jordanian Hospital and randomly distributed into experimental group (n=51) and control group (n= 51). The study data were collected using a self-report questionnaire working in the King Abdullah University hospital at baseline and at the end of intervention. For five weeks, the experimental group had five individual 30-minute MBI sessions. An audio-based MBI that was given to them via the WhatsApp served as the research intervention. A self-report questionnaire was used to collect the study data as follows: 1) demographic characteristics and 2) Mindful Attention Awareness, and 3) Scale the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). The study outcomes were measured at baseline and at the end of the intervention. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS), Version 26.