Reliability and Repeatability of the Instrument for the Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students (ASNS)

• Published in: Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) Lithuania), 2019-09, Vol.55 (10), p.634
• Main Authors: Losa-Iglesias, Marta Elena, Jiménez-Fernández, Raquel, Alameda-Cuesta, Almudena, Cid-Exposito, Maria Gema, Rodriguez-Vazquez, Rocío, Becerro-de-Bengoa-Vallejo, Ricardo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Brief Report; Cross-Sectional Studies; Education, Nursing; Female; Humans; Male; nursing students; Psychometrics; questionnaire; Reproducibility of Results; Spain; stress; Stress, Psychological - diagnosis; Students, Nursing - psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Young Adult
• ISSN: 1648-9144; 1010-660X; 1648-9144; 1010-660X
• DOI: 10.3390/medicina55100634

: Stress in nursing students is a very common experience, especially when they face clinical practice. The aims of this study were to perform a transcultural adaptation and to examine the reliability and repeatability of the Instrument for the Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students for a Spanish population. : A test-retest analysis was carried out in two face-to-face sessions with the students with a lapse of 10 days between the two sessions. A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out between the months of May and June 2018. Sixty-four nursing students were recruited with a consecutive sampling method that targeted individuals in the freshman class. : A good internal consistency was shown for the total score (α = 0.8861) and for each of the six domains. The test-retest reliability, using the Wilcoxon paired test, was not significant, indicating no differences between the total scores or the domain scores ( ≥ 0.05). Finally, Bland and Altman plots of visual distributions did not show differences between the total scores and the domain scores. : The Instrument for the Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students was shown to be a reliable tool for measuring stress factors among Spanish nursing students.