Stress and Coping Strategies among Nursing Students in Clinical Practice during COVID-19

Stress is common among nursing students and it has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined nursing students' stress levels and their coping strategies in clinical practice before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A repeated-measures study design was used to examine th...

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Published in:Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) Italy), 2021-08, Vol.11 (3), p.629-639
Main Authors: Hamadi, Hanadi Y, Zakari, Nazik M A, Jibreel, Ebtesam, Al Nami, Faisal N, Smida, Jamel A S, Ben Haddad, Hedi H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical medicine
clinical practice
Coping
coping skills
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Data collection
Disease control
Disease transmission
Epidemics
Infections
Infectious diseases
Likert scale
Microorganisms
Nurses
nursing
Nursing education
Pandemics
Private schools
Problem solving
Stress
Students
Workloads
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Summary:Stress is common among nursing students and it has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examined nursing students' stress levels and their coping strategies in clinical practice before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A repeated-measures study design was used to examine the relationship between nursing students' stress levels and coping strategies before and during the pandemic. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to validate the survey and a student T-test was used to compare the level of stress and coping strategies among 131 nursing students. The STROBE checklist was used. During COVID-19, there was a reliable and accurate relationship between stress and coping strategies. Furthermore, both stress and coping strategy scores were lower before COVID-19 and higher during COVID-19. Nursing students are struggling to achieve a healthy stress-coping strategy during the pandemic. There is a need for the introduction of stress management programs to help foster healthy coping skills. Students are important resources for our health system and society and will continue to be vital long term. It is now up to both nursing educators and health administrators to identify and implement the needed improvements in training and safety measures because they are essential for the health of the patient as well as future pandemics.
ISSN:2039-4403
2039-439X
2039-4403
DOI:10.3390/nursrep11030060