WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

*Aswathy Devi M. K.

ABSTRACT

Nursing education is a very important stage in a nurse`s career. During their professional education, students experience academic demands like tests, theoretical and practical course work, aspects of professional practice as well as the practical matters of providing health services. The aim of this study was to assess the level of stress and coping behavior among Nursing students A descriptive survey approach was adopted for the study. 60 Nursing students were selected by using simple random sampling technique. Proforma for selected personal variables was used to assess the selected personal variables. Level of stress was assessed by Structured stress scale and Coping behavior was assessed by Structured coping scale. The finding of the study showed that, majority (65%) of students having severe stress, 21.6% of students having moderate stress whereas 13.3% of students having mild stress. The mean level of stress score among nursing students was 28.3 with SD +/- 11.91 ranged from 1 to 47. Majority 32(61.2%) of nursing students had poor coping behavior, 21(21.2%) had average coping behavior and 7(17.6%) had good coping behavior. Mean coping score was 12.5 with SD+/- 9.21and ranged from 1-30. There was no significant association between level of stress and coping behavior among nursing students with their personal variables such as age, gender, religion, parents education, parents occupation, place of residence.

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