Effect of life skills training on social health and Nurses creativity

Today, life skills training plays an important role in the social health and creativity of humans. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of life skills training on social health and creativity of nurses. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of nature and method, descriptive. The statistical population of the study consisted of all nurses in Tabriz city. The sample size was 297. Multi-stage cluster sampling method was used for sampling. In order to collect information in this research, library and field method and data gathering tool, this research was done by Social Health Questionnaire and Creativity Questionnaire. After distributing and collecting questionnaires, U-Mann Whitney tests and Multivariate Analysis of Mann-Whitney (MANOVA) were used to test the research hypotheses using the spss version 19 software. The results showed that trained nurses have significantly more social health than the nurses who were enrolled (P <0.05). The results also showed that there is a significant difference between two groups of trained and untrained nurses in terms of creativity (fluidity, flexibility, elaboration and innovation). For the fluidity variable, the level of significance was less than 0.05 and for the flexural variable the level was less than 0.01 and for the level of development, the significance level was less than 0.05 and for the level of significance initiative less than 0.001. Therefore, according to the averages (the mean flexibility was 3.43, 2.6, 2.83, and 2.3 fluid, in the nurses group trained, and the mean flexibility was 2.5, 2.13, 2.01 and 53.0, respectively in the group of untrained nurses), it can be said that trained nurses have significantly more flexibility, elucidation, fluidity and more initiative than nurses. The results show that nurses who have passed the life skills training course have significantly more social health and creativity than the nurses who have been trained. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the social health and development of their creativity by incorporating life skills training curriculum in nursing education.