Effectiveness of Pro-Safe Work Training (PSWT) and perception of workplace safety among undergraduate nursing students: a mental health perspective

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Payel Sarkar's team published a 2026 study testing Pro-Safe Work Training, a programme preparing undergraduate nursing students for workplace violence in healthcare. Students are especially exposed because they enter wards with little experience. Unlike lectures alone, this training mixes behavioural rehearsal, de-escalation practice, communication skills, and self-protection. Fifty purposively chosen students completed awareness and safety-perception measures before and after the course.

Awareness of violence prevention rose significantly after training, with ninety percent of students scoring above the study's high-awareness mark. Perceived safety also improved on average, and the share rating their perception as high grew from fourteen to thirty-four percent, but that change was not statistically significant. The authors credit the programme for awareness gains while warning that deeper confidence may need longer, multi-part efforts. They also note the study's limits: one institution, fifty students, and no comparison group.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/PMC13543419