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Stress is an inevitable part of life most especially in the field of nursing education; but one way to overcome its burden is by using coping strategies that will lessen the level of stress experienced. This paper analyzed the level of stress experienced by Nursing students and the coping strategies they employed. Both the level of stress and coping strategies used by the nursing students were analyzed for any significant correlation.

Objectives: To analyze the impacts of the restrictions implemented in LTCF during the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychological and functional status of older adults.Design: A retrospective multicentre study. We hypothesize that the negative effects of the restrictions will lead to a higher rate of decline between the measures taken immediately before and after the lockdown than between the two measures taken before the lockdown.Setting and participants: 365 participants recruited in four Spanish LTCFs in Galicia and Valencia.Methods: Impacts of restrictions on cognitive (MMSE), affective (GDS) and functional status (Barthel index, Tinetti) were analyzed by Linear Mixed Models with random intercepts, random slopes, and personal and contextual factors as covariates.Results: Social measures covaried significantly with the cognitive and functional status but did not predict longitudinal change. MMSE, Barthel index and Tinetti scores decreased significantly across pre-and post-lockdown measurement times, but only the Tinetti scores showed a specific impact of the restrictions.Conclusions and Implications: Only performance-based functional measures showed the real impact of restrictions. The findings highlight the importance of having data from several pre-lockdown measurements to enable identification of changes that can be causally attributed to the restrictions. The findings also support the resilience of older adults in mitigating the effect of the restrictions.