TY - JOUR
KW - Anxiety
KW - article
KW - clinical practice period
KW - Nursing students
KW - perceived stressors
AU - Ana Isabel Cobo-Cuenca
AU - Concepción Rodríguez Aguilera
AU - Asunción Sánchez Donaire
AU - Inmaculada Vivo Ortega
AU - Raquel Carbonell Gómez de Zamora
AU - Rosa M. Castellanos Rainero
AB - 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.
IS - 2-3
M3 - Journal article
N2 - 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.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 2012
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 91
EP - 101
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - Perceived stressors and anxiety of nursing students in their first clinical practice period
VL - 18
ER -