Jose-Maria Suarez-Garcia1, Alba Maestro-Gonzalez2, David Zuazua-Rico3, Marta Sánchez-Zaballos4, Maria-Pilar Mosteiro-Diaz5. 1. Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain. 2. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain. Electronic address: maestroalba@uniovi.es. 3. Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain; Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain. Electronic address: zuazuadavid@uniovi.es. 4. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain. Electronic address: sanchezzmarta@uniovi.es. 5. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain. Electronic address: mmosteirod@uniovi.es.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Clinical practice is critical for nursing students to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to properly develop professionally. The presence of stress in clinical practice may negatively affect their training. OBJECTIVES: To understand the extent to which clinical practice can be stressful for nursing students at a Spanish university and to determine the main stressors associated with the practice. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, descriptive, and observational study conducted in 2016 at the two nursing colleges of the University of Oviedo, located in Oviedo and Gijón in the Principality of Asturias, Spain. METHODS: A total of 450 nursing students at a Spanish university served as participants in this study from January to April 2016. A data collection sheet was developed to track different sociodemographic variables, and was distributed together with the KEZKAK questionnaire, a validated scale adapted to Spanish nursing students. It is composed of 41 items using a 4-point Likert scale, rating how much the described situation worries them from 0 ("Not at all") to 3 ("A lot"). RESULTS: Students were most concerned about issues relating to causing harm to patients and lack of competence. Women found clinical practice to be more stressful than men did, both in general terms (p < 0.001) and with respect to all individual factors included in the questionnaire. In addition, there were associations between the "lack of competence" factor and having a job simultaneously (p = 0.011), the "contact with suffering" factor and the school year (p = 0.018), and the "being harmed by the relationship with patients" factor and the age group (p = 0.013). CONCLUSIONS: Nursing students, particularly women, see clinical practice as "rather stressful", with the main stressors being those related to causing harm to patients.
BACKGROUND: Clinical practice is critical for nursing students to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to properly develop professionally. The presence of stress in clinical practice may negatively affect their training. OBJECTIVES: To understand the extent to which clinical practice can be stressful for nursing students at a Spanish university and to determine the main stressors associated with the practice. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, descriptive, and observational study conducted in 2016 at the two nursing colleges of the University of Oviedo, located in Oviedo and Gijón in the Principality of Asturias, Spain. METHODS: A total of 450 nursing students at a Spanish university served as participants in this study from January to April 2016. A data collection sheet was developed to track different sociodemographic variables, and was distributed together with the KEZKAK questionnaire, a validated scale adapted to Spanish nursing students. It is composed of 41 items using a 4-point Likert scale, rating how much the described situation worries them from 0 ("Not at all") to 3 ("A lot"). RESULTS: Students were most concerned about issues relating to causing harm to patients and lack of competence. Women found clinical practice to be more stressful than men did, both in general terms (p < 0.001) and with respect to all individual factors included in the questionnaire. In addition, there were associations between the "lack of competence" factor and having a job simultaneously (p = 0.011), the "contact with suffering" factor and the school year (p = 0.018), and the "being harmed by the relationship with patients" factor and the age group (p = 0.013). CONCLUSIONS: Nursing students, particularly women, see clinical practice as "rather stressful", with the main stressors being those related to causing harm to patients.
Authors: Manuel Sánchez de Miguel; Aintzane Orkaizagirre-Gómara; Javier Ortiz de Elguea; Andrea Izagirre Otaegi; Amaia Ortiz de Elguea-Oviedo Journal: Nurs Open Date: 2019-10-15
Authors: Cristina Gómez-Moreno; Eva García-Carpintero Blas; Pablo Lázaro; Esperanza Vélez-Vélez; Gregorio Jesús Alcalá-Albert Journal: Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being Date: 2022-12
Authors: Winnie Lai Sheung Cheng; Phyllis Man Chi Young; Kevin Kar Ho Luk Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2022-09-19 Impact factor: 4.614