02110nas a2200265   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001200118653001200130653002900142653002100171653002400192100002700216700003600243700003100279700002700310700003800337700003200375245009600407300001100503490000700514520129500521022001401816020001401830       2012                            d  c06/2012bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aAnxiety10aarticle10aclinical practice period10aNursing students10aperceived stressors1 aAna Isabel Cobo-Cuenca1 aConcepción Rodríguez Aguilera1 aAsunción Sánchez Donaire1 aInmaculada Vivo Ortega1 aRaquel Carbonell Gómez de Zamora1 aRosa M. Castellanos Rainero00aPerceived stressors and anxiety of nursing students in their first clinical practice period  a91-1010 v183 aNursing students are subject to different situations that cause stress (academic, clinical and external situations). When nursing students perform clinical practices they are faced with multiple stressors (disease, pain…). The aim of this study was to assess perceived stress in nursing students before and after their clinical practice period (2009/2010). Of the 398 registered students, 264 of them answered, both at the beginning and at the end of the clinical placement, the STAI questionnaire (measures anxiety) and the KEZKAK test (identifies stress factors). Before the clinical training period, 28 of the 41 items of the KEZKAK test yielded an average score greater than 1.5 (stress generating situations). At the end of the clinical training, 17 items presented this score. Furthermore, the KEZKAK average score and the anxiety state score were both significantly reduced. The most stressful situations were: "mistaking medication", "doing my job badly, endangering the patient", "making mistakes" and "pricking myself with an infected needle". It appears that the senior students, who have more knowledge and clinical skills, perceived the clinical practice as less stressful. It is advisable to follow the evolution of these students in the third and final year of the Diploma.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437