Studies on Student's Stress and Coping Experienced in Maternal Nursing Practice

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the student's actual state of stress and coping process experienced in the maternal nursing practice.
The study was performed using the stress scale and the questionnaire on 96 nursing students during the practice.
(1) The stress of the students before the practice in the morning was statistically higher than after the practice in the evening.
(2) There are many various changing patterns of the stress value, increasing, decreasing, or nonchanging along with the day time.
(3) Students recognized that they experienced to feel stress as (1) the bodily disconfort, (2) the difference sensation from everyday physical feeling, (3) the unusual emotion such as negative, depressive, positive, agressive emotion, (4) the unusual action in their own behavior.
(4) Stressors of students in the maternal nursing practice were:(1) new experience, new practice, (2) task to write report, (3) personal matters, (4) relationship with stuff in the ward of the hospital, (5) relationship with the patient, (6) relationship with teachers.
(5) The students who tried to make efforts for coping stress were gradually decreased after the middle of the practice seminar schedule. There were emotion-focused forms of coping, problem-focused forms of coping and emotion and problem-focused coping. The temporarily avoidance, indirectly supplement and dependence seem to be characteristics copingstress of students during practice.
(6) The students who said to influence ontheir practice were gradually decreased after the middle of the practice schedule.
Those who were in fluenced positively changed better their schedules of stress, where as those who were in fluenced negatively, other neutral can't decision either positive or negative.
(7) There were high correlation with the students who tried to make efforts for coping stress, and to feel in fluence on thetheir practice.