Results Several studies had indicated that social skills training interventions significantly increase the participants’ knowledge of text and performance about taught skills, improve their social adjustment and decrease their negative symptoms that are associated with social dysfunctions. The existing nursing studies had shown the efficacy of basic conversational and assertiveness skills training in terms of improvement into participants’ conversa-tional, interactional and assertiveness abilities and reduction of their social anxiety, negative symptoms and increasing of their self-esteem.
Conclusions Social skill training is a practicable therapeutic nursing intervention and should be implemented in routine care.