Abstract

BACKGROUND Nurses face many stressful situations due to their professional nature which affect their quality of work life (QoWL). The aim of this study was to determine the effect of resilience training on QoWL and job stress of nurses. METHODS This quasi-experimental pre-test - post-test design was performed on 30 nurses working in the Emergency Department of Shahid Mohammadi Hospital, who were divided into intervention and control groups (n=15). The intervention group received 8 sessions of 30-45-minute resilience training in two months and the control group did not receive any intervention during this period. QoWL and job stress were assessed by Walton Quality of Work Life questionnaire and Gray-Toft and Anderson's Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) in both groups before and 1 month after intervention, respectively. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS ver. 22, descriptive statistics, RM-ANOVA test, and Bonferroni ad-hoc test. RESULTS The findings of this research showed no statistically significant difference between the intervention and control groups after the intervention in terms of QoWL except social integration, total working environment, and constitutionalism in the organization (p>0.05). Also, there was no statistically significant difference between the intervention and control groups after the intervention in terms of job stress (p>0.05). CONCLUSIONS The results of this study show that resilience training can be used to improve the QoWL indicators of social integration, the total life space, and constitutionalism in the organization.