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                                                                <journal-id>j health sci med / jhsm</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine</journal-title>
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                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2636-8579</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>MediHealth Academy Yayıncılık</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.32322/jhsm.1338674</article-id>
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                                                            <subject>Mental Health Nursing</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Ruh Sağlığı Hemşireliği</subject>
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                                                                                                                                                            <article-title>The relationship between nursing students&#039; mental health literacy levels and holistic nursing competencies</article-title>
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                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4028-0321</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Duran Gül</surname>
                                    <given-names>Kısmet</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>MUGLA SITKI KOCMAN UNIVERSITY</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6309-8135</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Akpınar</surname>
                                    <given-names>Havva</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi, Hemşirelik Bölümü, Psikiyatri Hemşireliği Anabilim Dalı</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20231029">
                    <day>10</day>
                    <month>29</month>
                    <year>2023</year>
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                                        <volume>6</volume>
                                        <issue>6</issue>
                                        <fpage>1147</fpage>
                                        <lpage>1153</lpage>
                        
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                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20230806">
                        <day>08</day>
                        <month>06</month>
                        <year>2023</year>
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                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20230921">
                        <day>09</day>
                        <month>21</month>
                        <year>2023</year>
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                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2018, Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                                        <abstract><p>Aims: The study was conducted to examine the relationship between nursing students&#039; mental health literacy levels and holistic nursing competencies.Methods: This was a descriptive and relational study. The sample of the study consisted of 440 nursing department students at a state university. Data were collected with the Sociodemographic data form, the mental health literacy scale, and the holistic nursing competence scale.Results: The mean score of the mental health literacy scale total scores of the students was 101.11±8.49, and the mean total score of the holistic nursing competence scale total score was 168.41±40.53. There was a positive relationship between the mental health literacy scale total score and the general ability sub-field (r=0.101) of the holistic nursing competence scale and the professional development sub-field (r=0.095), and this relationship was statistically significant (p</p></abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Competency</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  holistic nursing</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  literacy</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  mental health</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  nursing students</kwd>
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                                <named-content content-type="funder_name">The authors declared that this study has received no financial support.</named-content>
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