Sources of Stress as Perceived by Nursing Students at King Saud University
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Sources of Stress as Perceived by Nursing Students at King Saud University,MOFIDA YOUNIS AL-BARRAK, MONA TALAT EL-NADY and ELHAM ABDELKADER FAYAD
Abstract
Nursing students suffer higher levels of stress during their college years than college students in other disciplines. Nursing students and persons employed in the nursing profession have been identified as a population with an elevated stress level. Stressors for student nurses included adjusting to a rigorous program of theory, long hours of study and pressures of student clinical practice requiring emotional and personal maturity. So the aim of the present study was to identify sources of stress as perceived by undergraduate nursing students at King Saud University. A descriptive, correlation design was utilized in this study. The study was conducted at Female College of Nursing, King Saud University at Al-Riyadh City. The total proposed subjects included in this study were 300 students covering all levels of the nursing college, using convenience data. The tools included two parts: Part 1 included socio-demographic data for students such as age, marital status, and health related data, part 2 was the Student Stress Survey Sheet (SSSS) which used to study the major sources of stressors among college students; it included items addressed academic, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and environmental sources of stress. The present study results concluded that there were a variety of stressors placed on the studied subjects. The major sources of stress as perceived by King Saud University College of Nursing students were the academic followed by intraper-sonal, then environmental and the last was interpersonal. The results of the current study recommended that it is important for the university to maintain well balanced academic envi-ronment conducive for better learning, with the focus on the students’ personal needs. The university should be affording adequate resources such as books, computers to do assign-ments; also nursing college should do an effort to narrow the gap between students’ expectations, goals, and values to be integrated with that of the university.