Author(s):
Lourenço, Tânia Marlene Gonçalves ; Charepe, Zaida Borges ; Pestana, Cristina Bárbara da Costa Freitas ; Rabiais, Isabel Cristina Mascarenhas ; Alvarez, Enrique Jesús Sáez ; Figueiredo, Rita Maria Sousa Abreu ; Fernandes, Sérgio Joaquim Deodato
Date: 2021
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/39322
Origin: Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Subject(s): Hope; Psychologic adaptation; Nursing students; Distance education; COVID-19; Esperança; Adaptação psicológica; Estudantes de enfermagem; Educação à distância; COVID-19
Description
Aim: to analyze the relationship between hope and the psychological well-being of Portuguese nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Method: this is a descriptive-correlational study using an online questionnaire for data collection. 705 nursing students participated, with a mean age of 21.74 years (SD=4.44). The data collection instruments used were the Herth Hope Index (HHI-PT) and the Well-Being Manifestations Measure Scale (WBMMS). Descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Results: in the HHI-PT, the affective-behavioral domain had the highest mean score (3.30; SD=0.45), while in the WBMMS, it was the sociability domain, 3.64 (SD=0.77). There were moderate to strong correlations (0.383 Conclusion and implications for practice: nursing students’ hope and psychological well-being during the pandemic are variables that are positively correlated with each other. Strategies to promote mental health, to be implemented by educational institutions, must consider the association between these two variables.
