Enhancing Nursing Students' Compassion, Empathy and Communication Through Mindfulness-Based Meditation: A Mixed-Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

This study investigates the impact of mindfulness-based compassion meditation on nursing students' compassion, emotional empathy and communication skills.

Design

An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design was employed. Quantitative data were collected through a quasi-experimental approach, followed by qualitative data to gain deeper insights.

Methods

The study was conducted during the 2023-2024 academic year with 53 nursing students from private and two public universities. Participants engaged in an 8-week, 16-session online mindfulness-based compassion meditation programme structured around Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) framework and Neff's Self-Compassion Theory. Quantitative data were collected using the Compassion Competence Scale

SUBMITTER: Sengul T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12643822 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature