Comparison of stress in freshman and senior nursing students

• Autor(a) principal: Mussi, Fernanda Carneiro
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Pires, Cláudia Geovana da Silva, Carneiro, Luciana Santos, Costa, Ana Lúcia Siqueira, Ribeiro, Fernanda Michelle Santos e Silva, Santos, Andréia Ferreira dos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/reeusp/article/view/159405
• topic: Estudiantes de Enfermería; Estrés Psicológico; Factores de Riesgo; Estudantes de Enfermagem; Estresse Psicológico; Fatores de Risco; Students; Nursing; Stress; Psychological; Risk Factors

Objective: To compare stress levels in freshman and senior nursing students. Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out in a public federal university of the state of Bahia, with students who answered questionnaires about sociodemographic variables, academic life, and a scale for assessing stress in nursing students. Chi-square and Fisher’s exact tests were applied to analyze the relationship between variables. To assess proportional trends between ordinal variables and groups, a chi-square test for linear trend was applied. The significance level was 5%. Results: One hundred and fifty-four students participated in the study. There was a tendency to higher stress levels among students in the last year compared to those in the first year, in four out of six domains: Performance of Practical Activities (p=0.00), Professional Communication (p=0.00), Environment (p=0.00) and Professional Education (p=0.00). Conclusion: High levels of stress were observed in students taking the last year. There is a need for broader research that includes other years of the course, an institutional reflection on stress factors and the adoption of an institutional policy that favors a better confrontation of stress factors.