Effect of Emotional Intelligence Training Intervention on Nursing Students’ Emotional Intelligence and Empathy Level | ||
| Alexandria Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 20, Issue 2, December 2018, Pages 97-114 PDF (465.99 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asalexu.2018.208196 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Neama Mohamed Fouad* 1; Aleya Mohamed Gamal Al Dean1; Ola Ahmed Lachine1; Amal Awad Moussa2 | ||
| 1Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||
| 2Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Emotional intelligence (EI) and its significance to nursing have been increasingly emphasized throughout the last few years. Emotional intelligence is composed of a deposit of interrelated skills involving a capability to appraise one’s own emotions, and those of others, utilization ®ulation of own emotions, social skills, and optimism. Empathy also has been described as a necessary element of the nurse- patient relationship and its link to emotional intelligence has been reported. Accordingly, EI training skills can be incorporated into educational training intervention to promote these skills. Objective: Investigate the effect of emotional intelligence educational training intervention on levels of emotional intelligence and empathy among nursing students of Damanhour University. Setting: Fourth year nursing students, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University. Subjects: Twenty nine students enrolled in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing course, and a matched group of twenty nine students enrolled in the Community Health Nursing course. Tools: Three tools were used for data collection 1) Socio-demographic and academic data tool 2) Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSPE) 3) Emotional Intelligence Scale. Results: The present study findings showed that empathy& emotional intelligence improved over a four weeks period after introducing training intervention for the study subjects. Conclusion: Emotional Intelligence training has can improve students’ empathy, appraisal of students own emotion and regulation and utilization of emotions. Recommendations: Emotional Intelligence courses should be held in curriculum of nursing for students and nursing staff to improve their empathic talents and emotional intelligence. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Emotional intelligence; Empathy; Nursing students; Training | ||
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