Abstract

The positive mental health evaluation of nursing students. Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental [online]. 2016, n.spe4, pp.57-62. ISSN 1647-2160.  https://doi.org/10.19131/rpesm.0142.

BACKGROUND: The importance of mental health is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its own definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being. AIM: The overall objective was to evaluate the positive mental health of nursing students through the Positive Mental Health Questionnaire (QSM +) of Lluch (2003), already translated and adapted to Portuguese (Carvalho & Sequeira, 2009) that aims to assess the student's ability in terms of management of positive variables that integrate mental health. METHODS: This is a quantitative exploratory research, which took as subjects 269 nursing students. It was initially traced the profile of the research subjects with a purpose of grouping and understand the population involved in the research. RESULTS: Based on the quantitative targets we showed that nursing students mostly are satisfied with their personal life, are good listeners, have trouble dealing with stress, lack of self confidence, unwilling to help others, and have facility to establish interpersonal relationships. CONCLUSIONS: Thus, we conclude that it’s necessary to invest in strategies to promote nursing student health during training allowing them to have better balance against situations imposed by the work, as well as the consciousness regarding the importance of care.

Keywords : Learners; Mental health; Quality health.

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