The Effectiveness of Prayer-based Psychological Peace Education and Patience in the Feeling of Failure and Distress Tolerance in Nursing Student
Journal of Pizhūhish dar dīn va Salāmat (i.e., Research on Religion & Health),
Vol. 9 No. 3 (2023),
11 November 2025
,
Page 104-116
https://doi.org/10.22037/jrrh.v9i3.38345
Abstract
Background and Objective: The feeling of failure and distress tolerance are among the factors that affect the students during their education, which is an exciting and challenging period. So the aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of prayer-based psychological peace education and patience in the feeling of failure and distress tolerance of nursing students.
Methods: The present study was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest control group design. A samples of 30 students in Tabas School of Nursing in the academic year of 2019-2020 were selected by available sampling method and were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The research instruments were Simmons and Gaherr's Tolerance Questionnaire and Gilbert and Allen's Failure Feeling. The participants in the experimental group participated in 8 45-minute sessions of prayer-based psychological peace education and patience on, but the control group did not receive any intervention. Data were analyzed using SPSS software version 22 and the multivariate analysis of covariance. In the present study, all ethical considerations were observed and the authors reported no conflict of interests.
Results: The mean score related to the feeling of failure significantly decreased in the experimental group compared to the control group in the post-test, but the mean score for the experimental group's distress tolerance analysis significantly increased compared to the control group in the post-test.
Conclusion: The results showed that teaching the prayer-based psychological peace education and patience on can be used as a useful intervention method to reduce the feeling of failure and increase students' tolerance for distress.
- Feeling of failure
- Distress
- Prayer
- Tolerance
- 2023-11-28 (2)
- 2023-09-08 (1)
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