Sources of Nursing Clinical Education Stressors and Students’ Coping Styles Against Them

Orujlu, S and Ghavipanjeh, S and Hemmati Maslak Pak, M (2015) Sources of Nursing Clinical Education Stressors and Students’ Coping Styles Against Them. Scholarly Bimonthly of Education Strategies in Medical Sciences, 8 (5). pp. 287-294.

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Abstract

Unlike many other student groups, the nursing students, due to their educational field and profession, are facing with many stressful factors, while they should adapt themselves with such conditions. In addition, based on the psychological theories, the coping styles play an important role to reduce stress and therefore, they affect general health of persons. The aim of this study was to determine the stressful sources of clinical education and coping styles in the nursing students. Instrument & Methods: In this descriptive-analytic study, 309 nursing students of Urmia Nursing and Midwifery Faculty were studied via census method in 2014. Data was collected, using a demographic characteristic form, Perceived Stress Scale, and Coping Skills Questionnaire. Data was analyzed in SPSS 20 software using ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis, and Spearman Correlation tests. Findings: The highest and the lowest stressful factors were “teachers and nursing staff” and “patient care”, respectively. Problem-centered coping skills were used by the nursing students more than emotion-centered coping style. There were significant differences in general stress mean score and general score of coping styles between female and male students, as well as between students of different educational classes (p<0.05). In addition, there was a positive and significant correlation between perceived stress of clinical education and the emotion-centered coping style (p=0.0001; r=0.3). Conclusion: The highest stressful factor of clinical education in the nursing students is “teachers and nursing staff”. In addition, problem-based coping skills were used by the nursing students more than the emotion-based coping style.

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