A Descriptive Study to Assess the Level of Stress, Coping Styles In Academic Performance Among Nursing Students
Author Name: Rajkumari Gunisana Devi
Volume: 01/01
Country: India
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Affiliation:
- Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Nursing, Govt. College of Nursing, Safidon, Jind, Haryana, India
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Nursing students were feeling insecurity, anxiety due to away from the home and difficulty in study due to changes in medium, surrounding environment changes so students are how they coping the problems in the new environment so the researcher felt that to assess the level of stress and coping strategies in academic performances among nursing students. Method: A research design used for this study was descriptive design which belongs to non-experimental research design. Convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample and the sample size was 100 Nursing students of SGHS College of nursing sohana. Data were collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire. Analysis was administered by the utilization of descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The Result showed that the mean stress score of the students was 45.15 (SD=24.19) and the mean coping score of the students was 75.19 (SD=17.42). Association was done between demographic variables and level of stress score of students by using chi-square (χ2) test that there was significant association between age, religion, and type of family, marital status, course, living accommodation, father occupation and mother occupation with level of stress scores of nursing student. Hence the null hypothesis has been accepted .There is significant association between gender, place of residence, family monthly income and motivation to study nursing with level of stress scores of nursing student. Hence the null hypothesis was rejected.
Key words: Stress, Coping strategies, Academic performance, nursing student.