Original Research Article
Year: 2016 | Month: October | Volume: 6 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 196-204
Assessment of Stress and Coping Strategies among Medical and Nursing Students at BPKIHS Nepal
Mandal GN1, Lama S2, Parajuli P3
1Additional Professor, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, BPKIHS Nepal.
2Professor, Department of Mental Health Nursing.
3Professor, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing.
Corresponding Author: Mandal GN
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Stress can have a significant effect on an adolescent’s long-term physical and mental well-being. Objective: This study aimed at exploring the causes, symptoms of stress and coping strategies among nursing and medical students at BPKIHS, Nepal.
Materials and Methods: Cross sectional descriptive study was conducted among nursing and medical students at BPIKHS. Samples were selected by using systematic random sampling. Total 100 medical and nursing students were selected by systematic random sampling. Collected data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic (frequency, mean and SD) and inferential statistics (Independent sample T test, ANOVA, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test)
Results: Respondents’ age ranged from 16 to 28 years. The most of common reasons of stress as stated by CN (Certificate level in nursing) students were difficulty in understanding classes (94.1%), relationship problems (76.4%), torture from teachers (70.5%), and home sickness (41.2%). Similarly common reasons for stress among B.Sc. nursing were found to be financial problems, family problems and relationship problems among 90 % of respondents and 72 % and 63.6% of respondents said that the reason for their stress were torture from colleagues and from teaches respectively. But most common reasons for their stress among MBBS students were financial problems (66.7%), family problems (65.3%) and difficulty in understanding classes (65.3%). Various ways to cope with the stress as reported by respondents were sharing feelings with friends, preferring music, using sense of humor, spending time in joy and joking, visiting temple, getting enough sleep, managing some time for rest and relax, looking at problems as challenge, and meeting others with similar interest, developing good rapport with all friends and smoking (22%) where are the best ways to cope with stress. Result shows that there is association between the stress and some variables like residence and types of family (p value < 0.05).
Conclusion: Students require attending sessions to assist in improving their life and coping with stress.
Key words: Stress and Coping, Nursing and Medical students.