@article{347,
  keywords = {Anxiety, article, clinical practice period, Nursing students, perceived stressors},
  author = {Ana Isabel Cobo-Cuenca and Concepción Rodríguez Aguilera and Asunción Sánchez Donaire and Inmaculada Vivo Ortega and Raquel Carbonell Gómez de Zamora and Rosa M. Castellanos Rainero},
  title = {Perceived stressors and anxiety of nursing students in their first clinical practice period},
  abstract = {Nursing 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.},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {Ansiedad y Estrés},
  volume = {18},
  number = {2-3},
  pages = {91-101},
  month = {06/2012},
  publisher = {Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés},
  issn = {1134-7937},
  isbn = {2174-0437},
}