The Effects of Client-Centered Group Counseling on Mental Health and Happiness among Nursing Students from Prince of Songkla University
Keywords:
Client-Centered Group Counseling, Mental Health State, Happiness, Nursing StudentAbstract
This two-group repeated measure design study aimed to examine the effects of client-centered group counseling on the mental health and happiness of nursing students from faculty of Nursing, Prince of Songkla University. The measure of the participants’ mental health, and happiness was done three times— immediately, one month, and two months after running the group counseling. Participants, 15 Third-Year nursing students, were randomly assigned to intervention group (n = 8) and control group (n = 7). The intervention group received the client-centered group counseling based on Roger’s theory, including the group counseling based learning by Olsen framework and literature reviews. The intervention was conducted 4 times, once a week and each time lasted 90-120 minutes. Research instruments included the questionnaires for personal information, Thai Mental Health Indicator-12 (Thai GHQ-12), Thai Happiness Indicator (THI-15) and client-centered group counseling intervention. Research instruments were validated by 3 experts. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was used for reliability testing of the Thai GHQ-12 and THI-15, yielding values of 0.77 and 0.85, respectively. Data were analyzed using frequency, maximum and minimum, mode, mean, standard deviation, Friedman’s test and Kruskal-Wallis test. Study revealed the following.
1. In the intervention group, after the experiment-- immediately, one month, and two months, mental health problem scores were significantly lower than before the experiment (p = 0.00). While the happiness scores were higher than before the experiment (p < 05).
2. After the experiment-- immediately, one month, and two months, the mental health problem scores of the intervention group had significantly lower than the control group (p = 0.001, 010 and 0.001). And the happiness scores of the intervention group were significantly higher than the control group (p> 0.05).
This research showed that the client-centered group counseling could help in promoting mental health, and happiness among nursing students.
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