Patient-related stressors and coping strategies in baccalaureate nursing students during clinical practice

Bodys-Cupak, Iwona; Majda, Anna; Grochowska, Aneta; Zalewska-Puchała, Joanna; Kamińska, Alicja; Kuzera, Grażyna

doi:10.5114/ms.2019.84050

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“…Almost half of the first-year students participating in our own research experienced intense stress. Similar conclusions were reached by Sun et al and Bodys-Cupak et al [18,19]. However, the results of research conducted on Norwegian students showed that only one third of the participants experienced high or average stress levels [20].…”

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Stress and coping strategies of medical students during their first clinical practice – a pilot study

Bodys-Cupak¹,

Grochowska²,

Zalewska-Puchała³

et al. 2019

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Introduction: The medical profession is acknowledged as one of the most stressful. The time devoted to acquire knowledge and practical skills is a source of stress for students, but also an opportunity to learn how to deal with it. Aim of the research: To assess how medical students deal with stress during their first clinical practice. Material and methods: The study was conducted in a group of 526 students of: nursing, physiotherapy, medical rescue, and obstetrics at a university. The research tools included: an original questionnaire, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the Stress Management Inventory. The dependence between variables was established using the Spearman's rank correlation. A significance level of α = 0.05 was assumed in the tests. Results: Almost half of the students experienced high levels of stress, and more than half of them manifested high levels of self-efficacy. The participants dealt with difficult situations mainly by active coping, planning, and seeking instrumental support. The paramedics and the midwives more often turned to active coping than did the physiotherapists. Younger people were more inclined to choose strategies associated with seeking support (rho =-0.134, p = 0.001). It was shown that strategies of managing difficult situations based on helplessness were more often followed by older people (rho = 0.126, p = 0.002). The greater sense of self-efficacy in the participants, the more often they chose active stress coping strategies. Conclusions: Active stress management strategies should be developed in students also to strengthen their sense of selfefficacy. Streszczenie Wprowadzenie: Wykonywanie zawodów medycznych uznawane jest za jedno z najbardziej stresujących zajęć. Czas poświęcony na zdobywanie wiedzy i umiejętności praktycznych jest również źródłem stresu dla studentów kierunków medycznych, a także okazją do nauczenia się, jak sobie z nim radzić. Cel pracy: Ocena, w jaki sposób studenci kierunków medycznych radzą sobie ze stresem podczas pierwszej praktyki klinicznej. Materiał i metody: Badanie przeprowadzono w grupie 526 studentów: pielęgniarstwa, fizjoterapii, ratownictwa medycznego i położnictwa. Narzędzia badawcze obejmowały: autorski kwestionariusz ankiety, Skalę odczuwanego stresu i Inwentarz radzenia sobie ze stresem. Zależność między zmiennymi ustalono za pomocą korelacji rang Spearmana. W testach przyjęto poziom istotności α = 0,05. Wyniki: Prawie połowa studentów doświadczyła wysokiego poziomu stresu, ponad połowa z nich miała wysoki poziom poczucia własnej skuteczności. Studenci radzili sobie ze stresem poprzez aktywne zarządzanie, planowanie i poszukiwanie instrumentalnego wsparcia. Ratownicy medyczni i położne częściej podejmowali aktywne formy radzenia sobie niż fizjoterapeuci. Osoby młodsze były bardziej skłonne wybierać strategie związane z poszukiwaniem wsparcia (rho =-0,134, p = 0,001). Wykazano, że osoby starsze częściej stosowały strategie radzenia sobie z trudnymi sytuacjami oparte na bezradności (rho = 0,126, p = 0,002). Im większe było poczucie włas...

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Stress and coping strategies of medical students during their first clinical practice – a pilot study

Bodys-Cupak¹,

Grochowska²,

Zalewska-Puchała³

et al. 2019

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“…Globally, nursing is considered a very stressful profession ( 5 – 8 ). The high emotional burden associated with increasing workload in qualitative and quantitative terms, exposure to existing and emerging infectious diseases ( 9 ), the daily confrontation with the suffering of individuals and their families and low social support leads to many stress reactions among nurses ( 10 , 11 ). Indeed, studies by Allen and Shanock have shown that as they start their first job, young nurses experience enormous mental shock due to low social support and lack of socialization ( 12 ).…”

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The Effect of Subjective Perception of Work in Relation to Occupational and Demographic Factors on the Mental Health of Polish Nurses

2020

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Introduction: Nursing is considered one of the most stressful professions in the world. The high emotional burden associated with excessive workload in qualitative and quantitative terms, exposure to existing and emerging infectious diseases, daily confrontation with the suffering of individuals and their families and low social support leads to the development of numerous stress reactions among nurses, resulting in the development of anxiety, insomnia, social dysfunction and depression. Indeed, somatic and mental stress-related disease rates are higher among nurses than in the general population.Aim: To determine the impact of subjective work characteristics on the mental health of nurses in relation to demographic and occupational factors.Material and method: The research was carried out among 558 nurses working in hospitals in Podlaskie Voivodeship, and used the Subjective Work Evaluation Questionnaire (SWEQ) and Goldberg's GHQ-28 Questionnaire.Results: As measured by SWEQ, and as self-assessed by means of the GHQ-28 questionnaire, overall stress negatively affects the nurses' health (R2 = 18.7%). Among the partial measures of the SWEQ questionnaire, work overload had strong and the lack of rewards, social relations and lack of support had weak negative effect on the overall mental health assessment of nurses (R2 = 19.2%). The responsibility measure was an exception that had a positive impact on the nurses' well-being. Among occupational and demographic factors, only higher education in relation to secondary education in interactions with the overall stress measure and unpleasant work conditions had a positive effect on the overall mental health self-assessment of nurses (R2 = 20.7%).Conclusions: The results of our study provide a clear message to the hospital management that improving the work organization and atmosphere of nurses by reducing perceived work overload and increasing the responsibility of nurses can have a positive impact on their mental health. Encouraging nurses to improve their education can result not only in an obvious improvement in staff qualifications, but also in better resistance to stressors in the workplace and, consequently, in better staff well-being. Both measures can have a positive impact on the quality of care provided by nurses and on reducing staff turnover.

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“…Bodys-Cupaketal (2019) reported that as the stress level increased, the frequency of coping using avoiding behavior increased. They interpreted that the students in the difficult situations more often relied on problemfocused strategies rather than the emotion-focused strategies 21 . Shiferaw et al (2015) observed that the interpersonal, environmental, and academic stressors are closely linked to the unhealthy coping strategies 22 .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, a negative correlation was found related to the use of instrumental support; positive reframing; and acceptance. Bodys-Cupaketal (2019) noted that the students in the difficult situations ask for the social and instrumental support 21 . Bhurtun, etal (2019) indicated that nursing students managed stress using both problem-and emotion-based coping strategies 19 .…”

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Learning Environment Stressors and Coping Styles among Nursing Students

Abdelhafez¹,

Elcokany²,

Ghaly³

et al. 2021

IJONE

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Stress is non-ended problem associated with learning. Coping styles are the only approaches that help students to overcome the stress and enhance the educational success. The study aimed to identify stress are as and coping styles of nursing students. A descriptive research design was used. 118 nursing students were asked to fill out the questionnaire. The highly learning environment stressors were coming from assignments and workload (12.14+4.19) and taking care of patients (10.14+4.19). The highly used coping styles were religion (3.28 + 1.0), Acceptance (3.06 + 0.89) and active coping (2.92 + 0.68).. It can be concluded that the clinical workload found in the courses is the common stressor for last year students.

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Patient-related stressors and coping strategies in baccalaureate nursing students during clinical practice

Cited by 9 publications

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Stress and coping strategies of medical students during their first clinical practice – a pilot study

Stress and coping strategies of medical students during their first clinical practice – a pilot study

The Effect of Subjective Perception of Work in Relation to Occupational and Demographic Factors on the Mental Health of Polish Nurses

Learning Environment Stressors and Coping Styles among Nursing Students

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