@article{ref1,
title="Developing bullying prevention guidelines for nurse interns' and its effects on their assertiveness",
journal="BMC nursing",
year="2024",
author="Abou El Yazied, Lobna S. and Hassan, Rabab M. and Badran, Fawzia M.",
volume="23",
number="1",
pages="e483-e483",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Bullying is a serious problem that has short and long term negative consequences for nurse interns. Bullying prevention guidelines have a great impact on reducing the incidence of bullying among nurse interns. <br><br>AIM: The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of developing bullying prevention guidelines on nurse interns' assertiveness levels. <br><br>METHODS: A methodological study design was used to conduct the study at Ain Shams University Hospitals in Cairo Governorate, Egypt. The study subjects consisted of all nurse interns enrolled in the 2022-2023 internship year and their number 121 nurse interns. The data were collected using four tools: the Bullying Knowledge Questionnaire, the Negative Act Questionnaire Revised (NAQ-R), the Individual Bullying Behaviors in Clinical Practice Survey, and the Assertiveness Inventory. <br><br>RESULTS: The scores for total bullying knowledge and assertiveness after the implementation of the prevention guidelines were significantly increased (91.4% and 86.3%, respectively) among those who were exposed to bullying than among those with pretest scores of (34.7% and 11.8% respectively) (P < 0.001). <br><br>CONCLUSION: Bullying prevention guidelines significantly reduced nurse interns bullying and improved their assertiveness. The study recommended the dissemination and generalization of the developed bullying prevention guidelines in different training settings.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1472-6955",
doi="10.1186/s12912-024-02128-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-024-02128-z"
}