Abstract:

This study was carried out to determine the psychological first aid practice self-efficacy level and mental well-being of nursing students. In this descriptive study, the target population is the nursing department students of seven universities in different geographical regions of Turkey that provide nursing undergraduate education. The research was completed with the participation of 422 nursing students. Research data were collected using Demographic Information Form, Psychological First Aid Practice Self-Efficacy Scale and Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale. Data were evaluated with number (n), percent (%), arithmetic mean (±), standard deviation (ss) values, independent samples t test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation test. It was determined that 60.7% of the students participating in our research had experienced a disaster before, and that the disaster experienced by 89.5% of the students who had experienced a disaster before was an earthquake. In our study, it was determined that there was a relationship between nursing students' psychological first aid (PFA) practice self-efficacy and their PFA education status and the university they attended. It was found that there was a relationship between the mental well-being of nursing students and their gender, university of education, experience of any disaster before, and PFA education. In the study, it was determined that there was a positive and moderate relationship between students' (PFA) practice self-efficacy and their mental well-being (r= 0.533, p< 0.001). In disaster management preparation, it is important to provide psychological first aid training to nursing students and thus to strengthen their psychological first aid self-efficacy and mental well-being.

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