The Effects of Mindfulness and Conscience Practice Program to Develop Adversity Quotient Of Nurses at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital of Thai Red Cross Society

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) to compare the adversity quotient of nurses in the experimental group before and after their practicing mindfulness and conscience practice program. 2)to compare the adversity quotient of nurses in the experimental after their practicing mindfulness and conscience practice program and control groups after their self - educated mindfulness and conscience program. 3) to compare the adversity quotient of nurses in the experimental group after and at a three week follow-up their practicing mindfulness and conscience practice program. 4) to study opinions of the nurses who practice the mindfulness
and conscience practice program. The subjects of this study were 70 volunteer nurses at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital of Thai Red Cross Society, chosen by from random technique. The experimental group was 35 nurses practicing mindfulness and conscience practice program, and the control group was 35 nurses who had self-educated with mindfulness and conscience program. The research instruments used for the study were mindfulness and conscience practice program, adversity quotient scale and opinion of mindfulness and conscience practice program scale. The reliability of which measured by the co – efficient was 0.93. The data was analyzed by using the mean, standard deviation and t- test. The study found that:1) the adversity quotient score of the nurses in the experimental group increased significantly at the level of .01 after the experiment. 2) The adversity quotient scores of the nurses in the experimental group was significantly higher than control group at the level of 01. 3) the adversity quotient score of the nurses in the experimental group after and at a three week follow – up were not different. 4) The opinion of the nurses who practiced mindfulness and conscience practice program were positive at high level.