The Spanish version of the stressors in nursing students scale

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Accessible SummaryWhat is known on the subject? The mental health of health professionals is affected by their own work. Nurses and nursing students face high levels of stress, which results in anxiety, burnout, and depression. There are scales that allow the measurement of specific stress levels of nursing students, especially when they first attend their clinical practices in real settings such as hospitals. What this paper adds to existing knowledge? Our study consists of validating an existing scale (the Stressors in Nursing Students Scale, SINS) that measures these stress levels in Spanish. Stress is an issue for nursing students and is related to the specific stressors they encounter in the process of their professional work and study. What are the implications for practice? The validation and adaptation of this scale to Spain will allow us to adequately assess the stress levels of our students to give them adequate tools for the emotional control of their anxiety and stress. Once we have a reliable and appropriate tool for measuring the factors of greater impact in the generation of stress, we can implement preventive measures which may be very useful for the control of anxiety. AbstractIntroductionNursing professionals and students suffer a greater number of stressors with negative health consequences.AimTo translate and test a Spanish version of the Stressors in Nursing Students Scale (SINS‐S), with a cohort of nursing students in Spain. Also, we sought to examine the factor structure of this test and explore the psychometric structure of stress among this population.MethodThe SINS scale was translated into Spanish and administered to a cohort (n = 398) of male and female Spanish nursing students in the final three years of their nursing program. Data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis.ResultsExploratory factor analysis revealed four factors: “Clinical,” “Financial,” “Confidence,” and “Education.”DiscussionThere were similarities between the perception of stressors by nursing students in Spain compared with the original version of the SINS from the United Kingdom. Stress is an issue for nursing students and is related to the specific stressors they encounter in the process of their professional work and study.

Development and validation of a brief version of the traditional Chinese Stressors in Nursing Students scale among college nursing students in Taiwan

“…After the removal of cross loading items in the exploratory factor analysis and model checking in the confirmatory factor analysis, the numbers of items were reduced from 43 in the original scale to only 20. In addition, unlike previous studies conducted in Hong Kong [ 5 ], China [ 6 ], Spain [ 7 ], and United Kingdom [ 4 ], where a four-factor structure to the SINS has been evident, a three-factor structure was observed in the present study. However, this is not the only study with a structure that the SINS scale has been shown to differ from that reported in the original study.…”

“…A similar four-factor structure, albeit with a slightly different configuration of item loadings on each of the factors, was also obtained in a simplified Chinese version of the SINS scale when applied to 1090 nursing students in China [ 6 ]. Recently, a Spanish version of the SINS scale was administered to 368 nursing students in Spain, and the confirmatory factor analysis revealed the same structure [ 7 ]. Nevertheless, the four-factor structure was not exactly replicated in all versions of the SINS.…”

The Changes in Stress Coping, Alcohol Use, Cigarette Smoking and Physical Activity during COVID-19 Related Lockdown in Medical Students in Poland

“…The intensity of the stress experienced in the clinical environment is primarily related to the care of the patient, accompanying another person in the face of death, performing nursing procedures and the burden of negative interactions with the staff and lecturers [ 44 , 45 ]. Spanish studies have confirmed that clinical stressors are perceived more intensively compared to academic and external stressors [ 46 , 47 ]. The stress experienced and remedial activities undertaken by students modify their quality of life and health.…”

Analysis of the Relationship between Stress Intensity and Coping Strategy and the Quality of Life of Nursing Students in Poland, Spain and Slovakia

“…The intensity of the stress experienced in the clinical environment is primarily related to the care of the patient, accompanying another person in the face of death, performing nursing procedures and the burden of negative interactions with the staff and lecturers [15,16]. Spanish studies have confirmed that clinical stressors are perceived more intensively compared to academic and external stressors [17,18]. In other research conducted by Salvarani et al in the group of 622 Italian students, it was demonstrated that "over 70% of nursing students reported a significant level of psychological stress" [19].…”