A Study on Factors Affecting Subjective Feeling of Fatigue in Female Nursing Students

Abstract

This study was performed for the purpose of finding the way to manage the health care of nursing students on the basis of actual living conditions and living awareness.
To elucidate the factors relating to subjective feeling of fatigue in nursing students, we analyzed the data of 154 students of School of Nursing, Chiba University, and studied the relationship between the number of subjective feeling of fatigue (physical, mental, neurosensory) and their living conditions, living awareness.
Therefore, we selected 34 items (factors) regarding actual living conditions and living awareness from preceeding literatures, and we conducted multivariate analysis called the method of Quantification Theory (1st Theory).
According to the analysis of the method using 34 factors, the results obtained were summarized as follows.
1. The number of subjective feeling of mental fatigue was most of three feelings of fatigue.
2. The items affecting the number of subjective feeling of physical fatigue were self-evaluation of health, regular practice of sport, self-evaluation of stress, doing arbeit, and so on.
3. The items affecting the number of subjective feeling of mental fatigue were the anticipation of their course, their dwelling, self-evaluation of stress, studying hours, and so on.
4. The items affecting the number of subjective feeling of neurosensory fatigue were their dwelling, style of their room, life satisfaction, the anticipation of their course, self-evaluations of health, and so on.