Stress in Nursing University Students and Mental Health

Abstract

Stress is a physiological response that impacts the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social components. It also involves the adaptation of the organism, the coping resources, and the environment. In young people, stress can be triggered by social interactions or school requirements. This chapter is a narrative review analyzing scientific bibliography from the main databases (NIH, Scielo, Redalyc) that explored the main stressors and their effects on nursing students. These stressors include the care of patients, assignments and workloads, academic evaluations, and negative or hostile social interactions. Data include the deleterious effects of stress in nursing students as anxiety, depression, inhibiting learning, and burnout, which negatively impact their academic development and health. Finally, some interventions to reduce the impact of stress are discussed. Conclusion: Stress responses in nursing students vary in duration and intensity during their academic training; final effects depend on the coping mechanisms, individual resources, and hospital environment. The effects of stress on nursing students impact on academic performance but could also trigger several psychiatric disorders as depression or anxiety, as well as other associated problems such as sleep disorders, alcohol, and psychoactive drug consumption, which in the short and long term may affect the patient care.

Nursing Intervention Program for Enhancing Coping Patterns among Nursing Students

“…About the reasons for joining the college, we find that the most selected answer was a work with a good future. This explains the turnout of male nursing colleges more than females and in recent years it is consistent with (6) who described the many benefits of the nursing profession.…”

Relationship of Nursing Students Stress and Their Personal Response to Stress in Learning Environment

“…This study shows the significant correlation between perceived level of stress and physio-psycho-social health, results of the study supported by a research results showed that nursing students' pressure adapting levels were influenced without anyone else regard and social help. Also, this connection seems to influence general wellbeing status (Yıldırım, Karaca, Cangur, Acıkgoz, & Akkus, 2017).Results revealed the significant correlation between different academic stress level and emotional, physiological and social responses of students, study supported by the research findings of Frank and Pulido which shows that academic stress can cause physiological and psychological stress which may develop mental disorder (Pulido-Criollo et al, 2017). Findings of this study demands for a bigger task for nurse professors in scheduling plans to avoid relapse of stress among students while keeping them inspired to achieve for a better education.…”

“…As study show Stress is a physiological reaction that impacts the intellectual, emotional, conduct, and social segments. It additionally includes the adjustment of the life form, the adapting assets, and environment (Pulido-Criollo, Cueto-Escobedo, & Guillén-Ruiz, 2017) Nursing education is an important part of clinical learning. During clinical learning nursing students face many stressors like lack of professional knowledge, teacher's behavior, assignments and workload.…”

Mental health in higher education: faculty staff survey on supporting students with mental health needs

“…More specifically, the experiences of how faculty staff on health and social care programmes support HE students' mental health needs are also under-researched. This is of critical importance to understand as students on healthcare programmes, such as nursing, midwifery, paramedics and social work need additional support to manage and cope with emotionally challenging situations in their practice learning (Pulido-Criollo et al, 2017;Coffey et al, 2014). They need support and opportunities to reflect and talk about these experiences.…”