Effectiveness of Mindfulness Training on work-family conflict of married nurses

  Nurses, like the other occupations, experience work-family conflict in connection with work and family responsibilities. The aim of current study was to investigate the Effectiveness of Mindfulness Training on reducing work-family conflict of married nurses. Research method was quasi experimental with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of this study included married nurses of Treata Hospital in Tehran city in 2016. 22 nurses were selected by available sampling method and randomly were assigned in two groups of experimental and control (11 people for each group). Experimental group participated in 8 sessions of 90-minute mindfulness group training and control group received no intervention. To collect data, Rastegar Khaled work-family conflict scale was used. Data were analyzed by univariate analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Results indicated that there is significant differences in post-test mean scores of experimental and control groups and mindfulness training could significantly reduce the “work and family conflict" of married nurses (p<0/001). Based on research findings it is recommended by mindfulness skills training for nurses, the work - family conflict be reduced.