Positive mental health of undergraduate nursing students: scoping review

A scoping review was carried out with a search in the electronic databases: Scopus, Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, in April 2020, which allowed retrieval of 286 articles. Data selection and extraction was performed in a double check by the group investigators and were assessed using the continuous data comparison technique.

Results:

We selected 53 articles that allowed detecting a set of 13 constructs associated with positive mental health that are continuously investigated by this audience.

Conclusion:

It was found that the mental health of undergraduate nursing students is a supportive set of characteristics conditioned to the inter-retroactive circuit, in which each component retroacts on each part of a set of strengths, fostering a dynamic state of internal balance.

Keywords
Mental health; Nursing education; Positive psychology

Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature

(mh:(“Estudantes de Enfermagem” OR “Bacharelado em Enfermagem” OR “Educação em Enfermagem”) OR tw:(“estudantes de enfermagem” OR “estudante de enfermagem” OR “alunos de enfermagem” OR “aluno de enfermagem” OR “alunas de enfermagem” OR “aluna de enfermagem” OR “bacharelado em enfermagem” OR “faculdades de enfermagem” OR “faculdade de enfermagem” OR “escola de enfermagem” OR “escolas de enfermagem” OR “graduação em enfermagem” OR “curso de enfermagem” OR “cursos de enfermagem” OR “ensino de enfermagem” OR “nursing students” OR “nursing student” OR “undergraduate nursing” OR “baccalaureate nursing” OR “nursing baccalaureate” OR “nursing school” OR “nursing schools” OR “school of nursing” OR “schools of nursing” OR “nursing college” OR “nursing colleges” OR “college of nursing” OR “colleges of nursing” OR “nursing education” OR “estudiantes de enfermería” OR “estudiante de enfermería” OR “pregrado en enfermería” OR “bachillerato em enfermería” OR “bachillerato de enfermería” OR “escuela de enfermería” OR “escuelas de enfermería” OR “colegio de enfermería” OR “colegios de enfermería” OR “educación en enfermería” OR “educación de enfermería”)) AND (tw:(“saúde mental positiva” OR “positive mental health” OR “salud mental positiva” OR “auto-conceito” OR “self-concept” OR autoconcepto OR autoestima OR “self esteem” OR “self-esteem” OR autoimagem OR “self image” OR autoimagen OR “satisfação pessoal” OR “personal satisfaction” OR “satisfacción personal” OR otimismo OR optimism OR optimismo OR “pró-social” OR “pro-social” OR prosocial OR autocontrole OR “self control” OR “self-control” OR autocontrol OR “controle emocional” OR “emotional control” OR “control emocional” OR autonomia OR autonomy OR autoconfiança OR “self confidence” OR “self-confidence” OR autoconfianza OR autoatualização OR “self-actualization” OR “self actualization” OR “autorrealización” OR “auto-actualización” OR “autoactualización” OR “habilidades relacionais” OR “relational skills” OR “habilidades relacionales” OR “habilidade relacional” OR “relational skill” OR “habilidad relacional” OR empatia OR empathy) OR mh:(“Autonomia Pessoal” OR “Satisfação Pessoal” OR autoimagem OR otimismo OR autocontrole OR empatia)) AND tw:(menta*) AND (db:(“LILACS”)) AND (year_cluster:[2010 TO 2020])

Distribution of Studies
Year	2010 (C1, C2, S3), 2011 (L1, C3), 2012 (C5, C6, L2, S6), 2013 (C7,S12), 2014 (C9, C10, L3, L4), 2015 (C11, C12, L5, L6, S17), 2016 (C13, C14, C15, C17, L7, S18, S20), 2017 (C18, C19, C21, C23, S24, S25, S27), 2018 (C22, C24, C25, S34), 2019 (C26, C27, C28, C29, S40, S41, S42, S45), 2020 (C30, C31, C32, C33, S30, S31, S46)
Country	China (C2,C13,C21,C28,S12,S20,S24,S34), Brazil (L1,L2,L4,L5,L7,C14,S30,S31), United States of America (C1,S3,C19,S6,S18,S41), United Kingdom (C5,C10,C11,C15,C32), Australia (C6,C24,C29,C30,C33), Iran (C25,C31,S17), Portugal (C7,L3,S42), South Korea (C9,C17,C22), Spain (C18,C23,S42), Turkey (C26,S45), Thailand (C3), Mexico (L6), South Africa (C12), Croatia (S25), India (S27), Slovenia (S40), North Ireland (S40), Sweden (C27), Israel (S46)
Method	Cross-sectional quantitative (C3,C9,C10,C14,C18,C21,C25,C26,C28,C29,L1,L6,S6,S18,S20,S25,S27,S30,S40,S41,S42,S45), qualitative (C11,C12,C19,C22,C27,C31,C33,L4,S12), cross-cultural adaptation and validation of instruments (C7,C13, L3,L5,L7), quasi-experimental (C23,C30,S3,S17,S31), mixed or qualitative-quantitative (C1,C15,S34), randomized controlled trial (C17,S24), case-control (C2), experience report (C32,S46), reflection (C24)
Indexing Journal	Nurse Education Today (C2, C3, C5, C11, C22, C24, C26, C30, S20, S34), Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (L2, L3, L5, L7, S31), Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (S6, S41, S42), International Journal of Mental Health Nursing (C29, C33, S24), American Journal of Men’s Health (S12, S45), Journal of Christian Nursing (C19, S18), Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (C13, C18), Journal of Professional Nursing (C28, S46), International Journal of Community Based Nursing and, Midwifery (C31), Texto&Contexto Enfermagem (S30), Issues in Mental Health Nursing (S3), Journal of Nursing Education (C1), Acta Paulista de Enfermagem (L1), International Journal of Nursing Practice (C6), Pensar Enfermagem (C7), Investigación y Educación en Enfermería (L4), International Nursing Review (C9), Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (C10), Revista Electrónica Enfermería Actual en Costa Rica (L6), Global Journal of Health Science (S17), African Journal of Nursing and Midwifery (C12), Revista Portuguesa de Enfermagem de Saúde Mental (C14), Art & Science (C15), Nursing and Health Sciences (C17), The Open Public Health Journal (S25), Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research (S27), The Journal of Nursing Research (C21), Enfermería Clínica (C23), Iranian Journal of Psychiatric (C25), Nurse Education in Practice (S40), Health Education & Behavior (C27), Nursing Times(C32)
Investigated Concept	Self-esteem (C2,C9,C17,C26,C28,L4,S25,S30,S31), self-efficacy (L3,S3,S24,S30,S34), well-being (C3,C5,C13,S25,S40), empathy (C1,C6,C25), interpersonal relationship skills (C15,C22,L2,S25), positive mental health (C14,C18,S42), coping/managing crisis/stress (C24,C26,C27,S45), general mental health (C31,S41), optimism (C10,L1), confidence/ self-confidence (L3,S6), resilience (C7,S27), self-awareness (C11,S18), satisfaction (L5,L7), emotional intelligence (C33,S20), self determination(C29,C30), self image (S12), autonomy (L4), happiness (L6), self-regulation/self-direction (S17), emotional support (C12), spirituality (C19), mental self-sufficiency (C21), self-control (C23), social support (C26), collaborative practice (C32), communication skills (S46)

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[1] Correspondence to: K. H. J. F. SOUSA. E-mail: kayohenriquejardel@gmail.com.