A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Peer Group Intervention to Promote Wellbeing in Mental Health Nurses.

ABSTRACT: The work mental health nurses undertake is widely acknowledged as being challenging. Stressors encountered in the workplace can negatively impact nurses' psychological wellbeing and contribute to issues with retaining nurses in the profession. There is limited interventional research that focuses on external factors that foster nurse wellbeing. This study aimed to evaluate a peer group intervention to promote nurse wellbeing. A longitudinal mixed-methods study with an equal status concurrent design was undertaken. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected via semi-structured interviews and surveys across three timepoints, baseline, mid-intervention, and post-intervention. Qualitative data were collected to explore interviewees' experiences of participating in the intervention, and q

SUBMITTER: Cooper AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11969422 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature