Positive mental health in nursing training: Are Moroccan nursing and health technician students flourished?

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Psychological flourishing is a component of positive mental health that characterizes the lives of nursing and health technology students, despite the stressful situations they experience during this training. The objective of this study is to evaluate psychological flourishing and to put the thumb on its importance in the training of nursing and health technique students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study was conducted at the two higher institutes of nursing and health technical professions in Fez and Rabat between 1 March and 30 March 2022, using a questionnaire containing socio-demographic characteristics, training characteristics, a perceived stress scale (PSS10) and a psychological flourishing scale. RESULTS: This study allowed us to describe very correct levels of flourishing with high average scores for all items on the scale of psychological flourishing. Except that female students are more flourished compared to their male colleagues, the effect of socio-demographic data on well-being outcomes has been found to be the least important among other factors. Psychological flourishing is positively related to perceived stress, with the most flourished students displaying positive stress that stimulates students and pushes them to achieve their goals. CONCLUSION: Because the most flourished students manifest a positive stress stimulating the student and pushing them to achieve their goals, training managers and decision-makers are advised to include elements that reinforce the positive mental health of students in training programs to give all students the opportunity to deal with any psychological problem that may impact their mental health.