Correlations between stress and anxiety levels in nursing students

  • Kurebayashi L
  • Prado J
  • Silva M
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Abstract

Objective: Transversal, descriptive, and correlational study with 71 professionalizing Nursing students, with the purpose of describing social-demographic data, to verify and to correlate stress and anxiety levels. Methods: Data collection was performed on January 2011, from Vasconcelo’s List of Stress Symptoms and Spielberger’s Inventory of Trait and State Anxiety. Results: There were 90.44% female students with an average 28.87 years of age; 32.39% obtained average stress score and 64.79% high score; 43.66% for high score in Trait and State Anxiety; 43.66% and 36.62% for moderate score respectively for Trait and State Anxiety. At Pearson correlation the following coefficients were obtained: LSS/Trait-Anxiety ( r =0.656/ p =0.000); LSS/State-Anxiety ( r =0.512/ p =0.000). Conclusion: Students presented high levels of stress and anxiety and correlations between these variables were positive. Future studies are necessary with higher samples.

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Kurebayashi, L. F. S., Prado, J. M. do, & Silva, M. J. P. da. (2012). Correlations between stress and anxiety levels in nursing students. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.5430/jnep.v2n3p128

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