The Relationship Between Nurses' Mindfulness and Care-Focused Nurse-Patient Interaction

Year 2025, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 10 - 21, 28.02.2025

Sinem Gökcek Oya Sevcan Orak

https://doi.org/10.19127/mbsjohs.1504490

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this research is to determine the relationship between nurses mindfulness levels and care-oriented patient-nurse interaction.
Methods: The study, which is descriptive and relationship-seeking study, was conducted with 330 nurses working in a university hospital. “Socio-Demographic Information Form”, “Care-Oriented Patient-Nurse Interaction Scale” and “Mindfulness Scale” were used as data collection tools. Skewness and kurtosis coefficients, percentage and frequency distribution, Pearson correlation analysis and simple linear regression analysis were used in the statistical evaluation of the data.
Results: It was determined that 78.5% of the participants were women, 57.3% were married, 77.3% had a bachelor’s degree, 67% were at the middle-income level, 79.1% had 10 years or less of professional experience, 55.5% chose the profession voluntarily, % It was determined that 83.9% did not have a chronic disease and 96.1% did not have a mental illness. It was etermined that there is a significant relationship between the Nurses’ Conscious Awareness Scale scores and the Care-Oriented Patient-Nurse Interaction Scale Materiality Dimension total and sub-dimension scores (p<0.05). It has been determined that mindful awareness explains 11.5% ofthe importance given to care-oriented nurse-patient interaction.
Conclusion: It has been concluded that nurses’ mindfulness levels affect the importancethey attach to care-oriented patient-nurse interaction; and, as the level of mindfulness increases, the importance given to care-oriented nurse-patient interaction also increases.

Keywords

Nursing, mindfulness, nurse-patient interaction, nursing care

Ethical Statement

Ethics Committee: Ethics committee approval was obtained from the Social and Human Sciences Ethics Committee (Date: 25.11.2020; Number: 2020/794) of the university where the research was conducted before the study was started.

Thanks

The authors thank all the nurses who participated in this study.

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