Assertiveness and Self-esteem of Final Year Nursing Students: Effect of Psycho-Educational Nursing Intervention

Abstract

Background: Nursing students- as the future professionals- who can behave \nassertively develop self-worth, self-respect, and high self-esteem while communicating \nprofessionally and practicing competently. Aim: This study aimed to assess the assertiveness \namong final year nursing students; assess the self-esteem among final year nursing students; \nand to assess the effect of psycho-educational nursing intervention implementation on \nassertiveness and self-esteem of final year nursing students. Design: A quasi-experimental \nstudy design on one group pre/post assessment was utilized on 45 final year nursing students \nwho were enrolled in psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing\x02 \nAin Shams University. Tools of data collection: The data was collected using an interview \nquestionnaire that included three sections as the following: 1) student s demographic \ncharacteristics; 2) Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS); and 3) Rosenberg self-esteem \nscale. Results: the current study revealed that: there were improvement in the studied \nnursing students` levels of assertiveness and self-esteem post- psycho-educational nursing \nintervention implementation; there were highly statistically significant differences between \nassertiveness levels; and self-esteem levels of the studied nursing students pre- and post\x02 \npsycho-educational nursing intervention implementation; as well, there was a highly \nstatistically significant direct correlation between levels self-esteem and assertiveness of the \nstudied students post psycho-educational nursing intervention implementation. Conclusion: \nThe study concluded that, the psycho-educational nursing intervention implementation had \npositive effect on assertiveness and self-esteem of final year nursing students. \nRecommendation: incorporating assertiveness training as an eligible training course of the \nundergraduate nursing program