Kontakt 2023, 25(3):200-206 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2023.028

The impact of a mindfulness-based stress reduction training program on depression, anxiety, and stress in Moroccan nursesNursing - Original article

Jamal Ksiksou1, 2, *, Lhoussaine Maskour3, Smail Alaoui1
1 Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences Dhar El Mehraz, Sociology and Psychology Laboratory, Fez, Morocco
2 Higher Institute of Nursing Professions and Health Techniques, Tetouan, Morocco
3 Ibn Zohr University, Laboratory of Science and Technology Research (LRST), ESEF, Agadir, Morocco

Background: This study examines the impact of a mindfulness-based stress reduction-training program on depression, anxiety, and stress among nurses in Morocco.

Methods: Participants were selected from a hospital in the province of Tetouan, Morocco. They included 80 hospital nurses, 59 women and 21 men. They were randomly assigned to an intervention group and a control group, with 40 participants in each group. An eight-week mindfulness training was used as a psychological intervention in the intervention group. To assess the outcomes of both groups before and after the intervention, a depression, anxiety, and stress scale and a five-facet mindfulness questionnaire were used.

Results: In the intervention group, mean post-test scores showed significant differences from pre-test in the depression variable (η2 = 0.249; p < 0.001), Anxiety = (η2 = 0.282; p < 0.001), and Stress = (η2 = 0.396; p < 0.001), as well as in the FFMQ (η2 = 0.379; p < 0.001. Similarly, a 4-month follow-up revealed that all variables showed statistically significant differences, with an equally large effect size (η2 = 1.387; p < 0.001).

Conclusion: The MBSR training program is an effective, evidence-based psychotherapeutic intervention for treating depression, anxiety, and stress in hospital nurses. Further in-depth studies based on neuroscientific data using electroencephalogram (EEG) evoked brain potentials are recommended.

Keywords: Anxiety; Depression; Mindfulness-based stress reduction; Nurse; Stress
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The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

Received: March 22, 2023; Revised: May 26, 2023; Accepted: July 28, 2023; Prepublished online: August 10, 2023; Published: September 21, 2023  Show citation

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Ksiksou J, Maskour L, Alaoui S. The impact of a mindfulness-based stress reduction training program on depression, anxiety, and stress in Moroccan nurses. Kontakt. 2023;25(3):200-206. doi: 10.32725/kont.2023.028.
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