Academic Stress among Nursing Students
Journal Title: Nursing & Healthcare International Journal - Year 2020, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Stress is a state of physical and psychological strain which imposes demand for adjustment upon the individual. It is one of the common features in all our lives. Academic Stress in today’s highly competitive world, student face various academic problems including exam stress, disinterest in attending class and inability to understand the nursing students. Hence a descriptive study on Academic stress among nursing students of selected nursing colleges at Distt. Mandi, in Himachal Pradesh was conducted with the aim of assessing the level of academic stress among nursing students. Sample size for the study was 200 nursing students studying in selected nursing colleges indifferent nursing courses. A convenience sampling technique was used to select the samples and demographic profile and self-structured academic stress scale was administered to assess the level of academic stress among nursing students. The result showed that most of the nursing students had moderate level of academic stress. There was an association with level of stress and selected demographic variables like age, course of study, education status of father, monthly family income, and medium of education status were statistically significant at 0.05 level. The study concludes that most of the nursing students had moderate academic stress. Hence the study recommends it is very important to arrange some workshops at the beginning of every semester where the students will be able to learn how to overcome the stress and perform well in the studies.
Authors and Affiliations
Kumar P*, Pathania S, Aarti, Isha, Manisha, Bhardwaj M and Sharma M
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