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Sánchez Donaire A, Vivo Ortega I, Cobo Cuenca AI, Castellanos Rainero RM, Rodríguez Aguilera C, Carbonell Gómez de Zamora R. Factores estresores y ansiedad en estudiantes de Enfermería durante las prácticas clínicas. Metas Enferm 2013; 16(5):55-60.

Authors

1Asunción Sánchez Donaire, 2Inmaculada Vivo Ortega, 3Ana Isabel Cobo Cuenca, 4Rosa María Castellanos Rainero, 5Concepción Rodríguez Aguilera,

Position

¹Enfermera. Hospital Virgen de la Salud.²Enfermera. Centro de Salud de Ocaña. ³Enfermera. Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería y Fisioterapia de Toledo.^4,5Enfermera.

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Asunción Sánchez Donaire. Avda. de Irlanda, 15- P2, 4ºC. 45005

Contact email: sunsidonaire@yahoo.es

Abstract

Objective: to identify those stressors perceived by the Nursing students in the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM) during clinical practices along the course of their studies; to understand how these factors change, and to determine whether there is any connection between these and anxiety levels.
Método: descriptive, longitudinal and prospective study. Population: Nursing students at the beginning of clinical practices in the 2009-2010 term. Questionnaires: KEZKAK, to identify stressors, and STAI to measure levels of anxiety trait (AT) and state (AS). Three measurements: 1) the day before initiating the first clinical practices, 2) two days before the end of said practices, and 3) after completing the period of clinical practices in the 3rd year.
Results: there were 398 students in total. Of these, 206 students answered in all three occasions (51.76%). The median AT was 39.53 (DT= 28.11); K1 69.43 and AS1 48.46; K2 59.48 and AS2 29.62; K3 62.43 and AE3 35.79. Significant differences between K1 and K2 scores, and K1 and K3 scores (p < 0.01 in both cases) and between K2 and K3 scores (p= 0.01).
There was a weak correlation between KEZKAK and anxiety in all three occasions. The factors with a higher score were: “not doing my job well and harming the patient”, “administering the wrong medication”, “making mistakes” and “pricking myself with an infected needle”.
Conclusions: stressors get gradually reduced along practices, but they increase again at the end of the career. Those factors perceived as most important are the same across the whole course of studies. Students must be given resources which enable them to reduce their anxiety and face those situations which generate stress.

Keywords:

anxiety; clinical practices; nursing students; stressteaching

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Factores estresores y ansiedad en estudiantes de Enfermería durante las prácticas clínicas