Stress Management Techniques: Its role on Emotional and Behavioral Symptoms of Stress
Journal Title: Journal of Nursing Today - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Stress manifests in many symptoms. This experimental study focusses on prevalence of emotional and behavioural symptoms of stress and observes for any decrease in these symptoms during post-test. Stress management techniques training program was conducted among Experimental group. Frequently reported emotional symptoms of stress during pre-test in Control group are feeling tense (84.5%), irritability (81%), Anger (77.6%), Restlessness (69%) and moodiness (63.8%) and in Experimental group, feeling tense (83.9%), irritability (80%), restlessness (75%), Anger (64.5%) and depression, moodiness and short temper (51.8%). The behavioural symptoms frequently reported in control group are eating less (58.6%), sleeping too less (48.3%), isolating from others (37.9%), picking fights with others (31%) and over acting (25.9%) and in Experimental group, are eating less (66.1%), sleeping too less (60.7%), isolating from others (39.3%), over acting (28.6%) and pacing (28.6%). In experimental group, for emotional symptoms, when compared to pre-test, the post-test shows significant decrease in moodiness, agitation, restlessness, short-temper, irritability, impatience, feeling tense, feeling overwhelmed, a sense of loneliness, depression and anger (p<0.05). In experimental group, there is significant decrease of behavioural symptoms like sleeping too less, isolating from others, procrastinating, neglecting responsibilities, pacing, over doing and over acting (p<0.05) in post-test when compared to pre-test. The stress management techniques training program was effective in reducing many emotional and behavioural symptoms of nursing students.
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Kasthuri S
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