Level of Stress and Coping Strategies among Nursing Students at Damanhour University, Egypt

Madian, Abeer Abd El-Aziz Mohamed; Abdelaziz, Maha Mahmoud; Ahmed, Hend Abo Elsoud

doi:10.12691/ajnr-7-5-3

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“…Stress is not a singular facet, but rather arises due to influencing factors that affect the individual and, in turn, impact their response in such situations. For example, one of these stressful situations can occur during students’ clinical practice once the students face a new environment and establish new relationships with staff nurses, patients, and an instructor and/or supervisor [ 18 ]. A study found that the most stressful clinical settings identified by the study were the intensive care unit followed by the emergency room, then the surgical units, while the area that was considered the least stressful was the medical units [ 19 ].…”

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Stress and Coping Strategies among Nursing Students in Clinical Practice during COVID-19

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Stress is common among nursing students and it has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined nursing students’ stress levels and their coping strategies in clinical practice before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A repeated-measures study design was used to examine the relationship between nursing students’ stress levels and coping strategies before and during the pandemic. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to validate the survey and a student T-test was used to compare the level of stress and coping strategies among 131 nursing students. The STROBE checklist was used. During COVID-19, there was a reliable and accurate relationship between stress and coping strategies. Furthermore, both stress and coping strategy scores were lower before COVID-19 and higher during COVID-19. Nursing students are struggling to achieve a healthy stress-coping strategy during the pandemic. There is a need for the introduction of stress management programs to help foster healthy coping skills. Students are important resources for our health system and society and will continue to be vital long term. It is now up to both nursing educators and health administrators to identify and implement the needed improvements in training and safety measures because they are essential for the health of the patient as well as future pandemics.

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Stress and Coping Strategies among Nursing Students in Clinical Practice during COVID-19

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“…Regarding the third and final theme, nursing students in clinical training are unable to avoid stressors and must learn to cope with or adapt to them. Previous research has reported a link between stressors and the coping mechanisms used by nursing students [51][52][53]. In particular, the inability to manage stress influences nurses' performance, physical and mental health, attitude, and role satisfaction [54].…”

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Nursing students’ stressors and coping strategies during their first clinical training: a qualitative study in the United Arab Emirates

Dias,

Subu,

Al-Yateem

et al. 2024

BMC Nurs

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Background Understanding the stressors and coping strategies of nursing students in their first clinical training is important for improving student performance, helping students develop a professional identity and problem-solving skills, and improving the clinical teaching aspects of the curriculum in nursing programmes. While previous research have examined nurses’ sources of stress and coping styles in the Arab region, there is limited understanding of these stressors and coping strategies of nursing students within the UAE context thereby, highlighting the novelty and significance of the study. Methods A qualitative study was conducted using semi-structured interviews. Overall 30 students who were undergoing their first clinical placement in Year 2 at the University of Sharjah between May and June 2022 were recruited. All interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim and analyzed for themes. Results During their first clinical training, nursing students are exposed to stress from different sources, including the clinical environment, unfriendly clinical tutors, feelings of disconnection, multiple expectations of clinical staff and patients, and gaps between the curriculum of theory classes and labatories skills and students’ clinical experiences. We extracted three main themes that described students’ stress and use of coping strategies during clinical training: (1) managing expectations; (2) theory-practice gap; and (3) learning to cope. Learning to cope, included two subthemes: positive coping strategies and negative coping strategies. Conclusions This qualitative study sheds light from the students viewpoint about the intricate interplay between managing expectations, theory practice gap and learning to cope. Therefore, it is imperative for nursing faculty, clinical agencies and curriculum planners to ensure maximum learning in the clinical by recognizing the significance of the stressors encountered and help students develop positive coping strategies to manage the clinical stressors encountered. Further research is required look at the perspective of clinical stressors from clinical tutors who supervise students during their first clinical practicum.

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“…A p value of .021 was found in the correlation of students who face stress due to inability to achieve their desired grades, and also experience stress due to high parental aspirations, which coincides with the results of a study conducted in India. 17 The reason might be that students perceive their parental aspirations to be stressful, making them want to achieve the maximum, within a limited time period, which often causes stress among them.…”

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Effect of parental relationships on stress levels of students in a medical college

Hussain

Khan

Ahmer

et al. 2021

JSTMU

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Introduction: Multiple studies have been conducted on the theme of stress faced by medical students due to the load of medical education and lack of adequate stress coping skills which may affect the students variedly. Objective: To critically assess stress levels in medical students of Shifa College of Medicine (a private medical college in Islamabad, Pakistan) and the quality of relationship between students and parents, thereby studying a relationship between the two. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted among the students of Shifa College of Medicine. A sample size of 315 students filled a pretested student stress questionnaire, which was made using the student life stress inventory survey consisting of 34 questions. Data was then analyzed using SPSS version 23. Results: Increased levels of stress were found to be common among medical students with a prevalence of 53.3% among our study group. A total of 65.7% students face stress due to the increased expectations of their parents. There was a positive correlation (p<0.05) between stress faced by medical students and their relationship with parents. Academics, lack of recreational time and high self-expectations were also major contributors to student stress. Conclusion: It can be concluded that there is a positive relationship between parental involvement and medical student stress at Shifa College of Medicine, which manifested in the form of excessively high parental aspirations, leading to adverse effects on the academic, social and personal life of a medical student.

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Level of Stress and Coping Strategies among Nursing Students at Damanhour University, Egypt

Cited by 14 publications

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Stress and Coping Strategies among Nursing Students in Clinical Practice during COVID-19

Stress and Coping Strategies among Nursing Students in Clinical Practice during COVID-19

Nursing students’ stressors and coping strategies during their first clinical training: a qualitative study in the United Arab Emirates

Effect of parental relationships on stress levels of students in a medical college

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