ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Hum. Neurosci.
Sec. Interacting Minds and Brains
Volume 19 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2025.1492298
Effects of A Positive Psychological Intervention on Psych ological States And Functional Brain Imaging Of Nurses In Transition Training: A Quasi-Experimental Study
Provisionally accepted
- Nanchong Central Hospital, Nanchong, China
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Objective: To explore the effects of a positive psychological intervention on the psychological state and brain function of trained nurses during the transition period.Methods: A total of 130 trained nurses were randomly divided into observation and control groups. The control group underwent routine training, while the observation group underwent a 12-week positive psychological intervention based on the "Three Good Things" program. The Core Self-Evaluation Scale, Patient Health Questionnaire Depressive Symptom Cluster Scale, Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale, and resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging were used for data collection preand post-intervention. The amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation, fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation, and regional heterogeneity indices were calculated to assess the functional brain activity of the participants. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to assess the relationship between the changes in brain function and behavior.Results: There was no difference in the general information of the two groups pre-intervention. Post-intervention, the observation group reported higher self-evaluation scores and lower anxiety and depression scores than the control group. The amplitudes of low-frequency fluctuation of the observation group were significantly higher than those of the control group in the bilateral talar gyrus, left cuneate lobe, left supramarginal gyrus, left temporal, left inferior frontal gyrus, left subparietal lobe, right superior parietal lobe, right angular gyrus, and right middle temporal gyrus. The observation group displayed significantly higher regional heterogeneity values in the bilateral superior parietal lobule, bilateral supramarginal gyrus, and bilateral inferior parietal lobule (P<0.05).Positive psychological interventions based on the "Three Good Things" program can effectively improve the anxiety, depression, and brain function activity intensity of nurses in the transition period.
Keywords: Anxiety, Depression, Nurses, psychological intervention, Functional Brain imaging
Received: 11 Sep 2024; Accepted: 21 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 He, Wang, Guo, Zhou, Hu, Zhao, Chen and Xiang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Haiyan Wang, Nanchong Central Hospital, Nanchong, China
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