1Principal, College of Nursing
2Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, PGIMER, Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi
*Corresponding author: Nirmala Singh Principal, College of Nursing, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, PGIMER, Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi. E mail-nirmalasingh2010@hotmail.com
Online published on 8 September, 2016.
Professional education can be very stressful experience which often affects the physical and mental health. It is important to assess the psychological well-being of the nursing students. This study was planned with an objective to identify and analyse the Clinical stress& stress reactions among nursing students
A descriptive Study was conducted among 139 students of a nursing college in Delhi selected from different years of professional study by Purposive Sampling method. Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire consisted of items on socio-demographic profile, clinical stress& stress reaction after getting written informed consent. Data was analysed using SPSS (Version 17). Coefficient of correlation between clinical stress and stress reaction was calculated and p value less than 0.05 was considered significant.
A majority (70.5%) of study subjects were in the age group of 20–22 years, educated up to senior secondary school (83.4%) and belonged to nuclear families (86.3%). The mean clinical score for stress was 56.8+15.7. Maximum number of study subjects (76.97%) reported moderate degree of stress with a mean stress score of 60.18. study subjects reported both psychological and physical stress reaction but physical reactions (average-160.2) were more evident.
Stress was evident among nursing students with variety of physical and psychological reactions. Effective interventional strategies should be taken for reducing stress among nursing students.
Clinical Stress, Stress Reaction, Nursing students
