The Effectiveness of Psychological Excellence Training on Self-Care and Distress Tolerance of Home Nurses of Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Abstract

Introduction and Aim: Home nurses of multiple sclerosis patients face many challenges, especially in the field of self-care and distress tolerance, and it seems that psychological excellence training is effective in this regard. Accordingly, the present research was conducted with the aim of determine the effectiveness of psychological excellence training on self-care and distress tolerance of home nurses of multiple sclerosis patients.

Methodology: This study was a quasi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test, and two-month follow-up design with a control group. The research population was home nurses of multiple sclerosis patients of Isfahan city in 2024 year, which 40 people of them were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly assigned into two equal groups. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90-minute by psychological excellence training, while the control group received no training during this period. The instruments used included the Self-Care Scale (Wang, 2020) and the Distress Tolerance Scale (Simmons and Gaher, 2005). The data of the present study were analyzed using analysis of variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni post hoc test in SPSS software.

Findings: The results indicated that psychological excellence training significantly increased self-care and distress tolerance in home nurses of multiple sclerosis patients, and the results were maintained at the follow-up stage (P<0.001).

Conclusion: According to the results of the present research, health professionals, psychologists, and therapists can use the psychological excellence training method along with other educational and therapeutic methods to improve the psychological characteristics.