ArticleBMC nursing2025
Latent profile analysis of moral courage and coping style among nursing interns: a multicenter cross-sectional survey.
Article in BMC nursing, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundClinical practice is a necessary experience for nursing students to become qualified nurses. Nursing interns' moral courage is essential to taking a positive coping style and providing high-quality care. This study aimed to explore the current situation of moral courage and analyze its potential profiles and differences in coping styles among nursing interns.
methodsIn this cross-sectional descriptive study, a convenience sample of nursing interns (n = 1258) from 14 nursing schools in the three geographical areas of China was investigated. The Chinese version of the general information questionnaire, Nurses' Moral Courage Scale and Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire were used to collect data from March 15 to March 30, 2024. Analysis of latent profiles was applied to explore moral courage among nursing interns, and a t-test was used to analyze the differences in coping styles of different latent profiles.
resultsThe moral courage of nursing interns was at the medium level, and they preferred positive coping. The moral courage of nursing interns can be divided into two potential profiles, including the low moral courage group (64.47%) and the high moral courage group (35.53%). The negative coping scores of the low moral courage group were significantly higher than those of the high moral courage group (p<0.001), and the positive coping scores of the low moral courage group were significantly lower than those of the high moral courage group (p<0.001). The positive coping scores of female nursing interns was higher than male's (p = 0.020), their negative coping scores was lower than male's (p = 0.006). Nursing interns of different genders had different potential categories in moral courage, and both male and female in the high moral courage group were more inclined to positive coping styles than those in the low moral courage group (p = 0.012, p<0.001).
conclusionThe moral courage of nursing interns exhibits heterogeneity and affects their coping style. Nursing educators can design corresponding educational countermeasures according to different profiles of nursing interns to enhance their moral courage, improve their coping strategies, and improve the overall quality of clinical practice.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.