Factors relationship to stress of nursing students
Keywords:
stress, nursing studentsAbstract
The purposes of this descriptive research were examine the stress and relationships between factors and stress in the first year nursing students. The samples consisted 111 nursing students who were studying in the first year in Baromarajonnai College of Nursing, Chonburi. The research instrument composed of personal factor, attitude toward the nursing profession, external factors related to stress, and a questionnaire Suanpung Stress test. Research instruments were assessed by three experts. The reliability using Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient were .90, .90, .85, and .95 respectively. The data was analyzed by using frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviation and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient.
The results found that most nursing students had high level of stress (39.64%) and followed by moderate level of stress (38.74%). The factors related to stress, it was found that personal factors correlated with stress with significance level .05. Attitude towards the nursing profession, relationship with other people and housing correlated with stress with significance level .01. Therefore, it should encourage positive attitude towards nursing students. Organizing activities that promote relationships between nursing students, and teachers to have a good and appropriate relationship to provide nursing students reduced stress levels and live happily in academic institutions.
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