Resilience Enhancement Training Program to Confront Nursing Students' Perceived Stress

NCT07181603 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 25.04.662
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 90
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to assess if a resilience enhancement training program can help nursing students manage stress more effectively. The main question it aims to answer is: Does the program improve nursing students' resilience levels? Does the program lower nursing students' perceived stress levels? Researchers will compare students who receive the training during the semester with students who do not receive it until after the study is completed to see if the training has an effect. Participants will:

1. 1.Complete questionnaires on resilience and stress before and after the training.
2. 2.Attend a structured resilience enhancement training program for 10 weeks alongside their usual studies.
3. 3.Be part of either the study group (receiving the training first) or the comparison group (receiving the training after study completion).

Conditions

Perceived Stress

Keywords

Resilience; Perceived stress; Stress management; Nursing students; Resilience training program

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in Perceived Stress Score

  Perceived stress will be measured using the Perceived Stress Scale. The scale consists of 29 items, each rated on a 5-point Likert scale (0 = never to 4 = very often), yielding a total score range of 0 to 116. Higher total scores indicate higher levels of perceived stress (worse outcome).

  Baseline (October 2025) and immediately post-intervention (December 2025)

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Change in Resilience Score

  Baseline (October 2025) and post-intervention (December 2025)

Study Arms (2)

Intervention Group - Resilience Enhancement Training Program

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants in this group will receive the Resilience Enhancement Training Program in addition to their usual curriculum. The program consists of 10 weekly sessions designed to improve resilience and reduce perceived stress. Sessions include self-awareness, self-regulation, stress and coping strategies, cognitive restructuring, self-compassion, gratitude practice, optimism training, self-esteem, and a wrap-up with evaluation.

Behavioral: Resilience Enhancement Training Program

Control Group - Usual Curriculum

NO INTERVENTION

Participants in this group will continue with their usual nursing curriculum during the study period and will not receive the training program. To ensure fairness, the Resilience Enhancement Training Program will be offered to this group after the completion of the study.

Interventions

Resilience Enhancement Training Program BEHAVIORAL

A structured 10-week behavioral training program designed to improve resilience and reduce perceived stress among nursing students. The program includes 10 sessions covering self-awareness, self-regulation, stress and coping strategies, cognitive restructuring, self-compassion, gratitude practice, optimism training, self-esteem, and a wrap-up with evaluation. Each session aims to strengthen coping skills and psychological adaptability.

Intervention Group - Resilience Enhancement Training Program

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Nursing students enrolled in the Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (PMHN) course at the Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University during the first semester of the academic year 2025-2026.
• Willing to participate and able to provide informed consent

You may not qualify if:

• Students who decline participation or withdraw consent at any time.
• Students absent for the majority of the program sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ain Shams University: lead

Study Sites (2)

Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, 11566, Egypt

NOT YET RECRUITING

Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, 11566, Egypt

RECRUITING

Related Publications (2)

• Sheu, S., Lin, H., Hwang, S., Yu, P., Hu, W. and Lou, M. (1997) The Development and Testing of Perceived Stress Scale of Clinical Practice. Nursing Research (Republic of China), 5, 341-351.

  BACKGROUND

• Connor KM, Davidson JR. Development of a new resilience scale: the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). Depress Anxiety. 2003;18(2):76-82. doi: 10.1002/da.10113.

  PMID: 12964174 BACKGROUND

Study Officials

• Amal E Nossier, PhD

  Ain Shams University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Fatma M Ibrahim, PhD

CONTACT

+201144500854; dr.fatma.ibrahim@nursing.asu.edu.eg

Amal E Nossier, PhD

CONTACT

+201015645730; dr.amal.elias@nursing.asu.edu.eg

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Participants will be assigned to one of two parallel groups: an intervention group receiving the resilience enhancement training program and a control group receiving no intervention during the study period. The control group will be offered the training after study completion to ensure fairness.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 12, 2025
• First Posted: September 18, 2025
• Study Start: November 2, 2025
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2025
• Study Completion: January 1, 2026
• Last Updated: November 17, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-09

Locations

EG (2)