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Comparison of stress in freshman and senior nursing students
Fernanda Carneiro Mussi1, Cláudia Geovana da Silva Pires1, Luciana Santos Carneiro1
1Universidade Federal da Bahia, Escola de Enfermagem, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
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.
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