Psychological vital sign (PVS© Mie-chuo MC) in nursing students

the first report：Collaborative multicenter research on the diversity of PVS

Abstract

The diversity of upper and lower limits of psychological vital sign (PVS） were studied in 5 nursing schools. PVS consists of stress self-regulation inventory (SSI), Profile of mood states （POMS）, Monitor-blunter style scale (MBSS), and Stress degree．

365 and 364 students before and after clinical training, respectively, were enrolled in this study. The graph representations of upper and lower limit of PVS in 5 schools tended to be similar in shape that were thought to be possible to standardize PVS. However, when PVS was compared between schools, there were some inventories which were shown as significant difference in SSI, POMS and MBSS. The upper and lower limit of PVS should be established independently considering these diversities. Our next subject is to develop a self-assessment system to make the multilateral and time series grasp of resources, such as mood states, individual psychological response style and resilience of nursing students, possible.