Effectiveness of Mindfulness and Metacognition Education on Social Welfare and Life Expectancy of Nurses

Introduction: Nurses have a key role in providing health services, so promoting their social well-being and life expectancy is associated with improving in job performance. The present study was done with the aim of investigation the effectiveness of mindfulness and metacognition education on social welfare and life expectancy of nurses. Methods: in this quasi-experimental research with pretest and posttest design 60 nurses of Sirjan hospitals Were randomly divided in 3 groups (each group 20 members), consist of: 2 treatment groups (one for education based on mindfulness and another for education based on metacognition) and one control group. Mindfulness training based on social relationships and social skills training with metacognition approach are used for intervention groups. Keys social wellbeing scale and Schneider’s life expectancy questionnaire are used for data gathering before and after educational intervention, data were analyzed by SPSS software using descriptive and analytical statistics. Significance level was set at 0.05.   Results: The mean scores of social welfare dimensions improved in intervention groups after applying mindfulness and metacognition education. The most increase in mindfulness and metacognition groups, was related to social participation and social acceptance subscales, respectively. Analysis of covariance showed that mindfulness and metacognition educations had a positive effect on social welfare and life expectancy of nurses (P<0.05( Conclusion: mindfulness and metacognition educations can produce beneficial effects on social welfare and life expectancy of people who face with high level of stress such as nurses.