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A peer-led group intervention based on relaxation (soRELAX) to improve well-being and mental health in nursing students: A mixed method pilot study

2025· article· en· W4406071857 on OpenAlexaff
Pilar Ramirez-Garcìa, Jérôme Leclerc-Loiselle, Christine Genest, Étienne Paradis-Gagné, Caroline Larue, Marikim Poitras-Crête, Sylvie Corbeil, Camille Saseville

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Professional Nursing · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
Canadian institutionsUniversité de MontréalInstitut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-PinelInstitut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de QuébecHôpital Charles-Le MoyneCentre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMental healthNursingIntervention (counseling)Peer groupPsychologyRelaxation (psychology)Peer supportMental health nursingNurse educationMedical educationMedicinePsychiatrySocial psychology

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: The well-being of nursing students is strongly affected by their mental health. PURPOSE: The aim was to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of a peer-led support group intervention based on autogenic training (soRELAX) on the well-being and mental health of nursing students. METHODS: A pilot mixed convergent design was used with a single group and three assessments: baseline, at 7 weeks, and at 12 weeks. The intervention was delivered online by 15 trained peers in small groups over 7 weeks. Recruitment, attrition, and completion rates were calculated. Well-being, stress, distress, anxiety, depression, social support, mindfulness, and performance were measured. Participants' perceptions were collected in online semistructured interviews. RESULTS: Three-quarters of the 55 nursing students completed at least six sessions. Results showed a significant increase in well-being and mindfulness and a significant decrease in stress, distress, anxiety, and depression symptoms at 7 and 12 weeks. Participants said that they felt more self-aware and more aware of what was causing them stress. CONCLUSIONS: soRELAX is a relatively feasible and acceptable intervention. Nursing students' well-being, mental health, and mindfulness were significantly improved after the intervention. This improvement was maintained at three months.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.565
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.494
Teacher spread0.466 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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