Analysis of the influencing factors of humanistic care ability of undergraduate nursing students in China

Improving the ability of humanistic care can enhance the professional identity of nursing students and establish a harmonious nurse-patient relationship. This study aims to explore the current status and influencing factors of the humanistic care ability of undergraduate nursing students. The results of this study will provide the scientific basis for cultivating nursing students with high humanistic care ability, increasing clinical nurses, and improving nursing quality. This is a cross-sectional study. From September 2024 to November 2024, we conducted a questionnaire survey on 367 nursing undergraduate students from 3 medical colleges in China. Participants self-reported general demographic questionnaires, care ability assessment scales, emotional intelligence scales, and self-efficacy scales. The collected data were analyzed using various statistical methods, including descriptive analysis, independent sample t-tests, 1-way analysis of variance tests, and multiple linear regression analysis. All analyses were performed using the SPSS (IBM Corp., Armonk) software (version 27.0). P < .05 indicated that the difference was statistically significant. In this study, the humanistic care ability score of 367 undergraduate nursing students was (194.99 ± 33.31). Cognition is the dimension with the highest score, while patience is the dimension with the lowest score. Multiple regression analysis showed that emotional intelligence, gender, and self-efficacy were the main factors affecting undergraduate nursing students' ability to provide humanistic care (P < .05). The humanistic care ability level of undergraduate nursing students in this study is at a moderate level. To improve this level, nursing educators should develop targeted intervention measures for various influencing factors. It is recommended that nursing education personnel strategically incorporate training on humanistic care abilities into practical teaching projects, stimulate nursing students to practice the virtue of humanistic care in their daily lives, and ultimately improve the quality of nursing services in clinical practice.