The level of stress and coping mechanism adopted by I Year B.Sc. nursing students

Identifying the Sources of Academic Stress and Coping Strategies in New Nursing Students

“…While the results of statistical tests in this study showed no significant difference in the level of stress based on demographic characteristics. These results are consistent with research conducted by Prasad (2013) that there was no significant association with the stress levels selected demographic variables (age, gender, religion, place of living, type of family, order of birth, economic support, hobbies, selection / choice of course, the medium of instructions in college).…”

“…This is in line with research conducted by Hirsch that significant predictors of stress among university students is the complexity of the method of assessment, the level of difficulty of exams and assignments, daily overload of activities and the lack of time given to the task . Research by Prasad (2013) revealed that majority of students (51.7%) had mild stress and 46.7% students had moderate stress and remaining (1.7%) students had severe stress. Shiferaw (2015) research, 47.7% of nursing students of baccalaureate program in Jimma University were experience stress to cause the highest stress is intrapersonal factors due to high expectation from the self was, the new responsibility of life, lack of friend, financial problems, change in eating pattern and the least was due to change in sleep patterns.…”

“…The first-year nursing students in India experience severe stress 51.6% and 46.7% moderate stress (Prasad et al, 2013). nursing students of Jimma University in Ethiopia, 47.7% had stress with stress is the dominant source of intrapersonal factors (54.9%) and interpersonal factors (36.3%) (Shiferaw et al, 2015).…”

Preditores do estresse e estratégias de coping utilizadas por estudantes de Enfermagem

“…(14) When stressful events are perceived, coping strategies are employed in an attempt to manage the threatening situation and regain balance. (9) The main stress-causing factors in this study were issues related to professional education and to insufficient acquired practical knowledge. (14) The most prevalent strategies among nursing students in stressful situations were negative, as they were focused on the management of emotion rather than on problem solving.…”

“…Our results were in accordance with those of other studies, which obtained similar results regarding low correlations between stress and coping. (9,10) A possible explanation for such low levels of correlation is that other variables are involved in the studied phenomena, and they cannot be analyzed separately as isolated causes; mutual influence among variables must be analyzed within each unique context. (10) Difficulties associated with professional education were directly related to the use of coping strategies such as denial of problem/expressing emotions.…”