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Mostafa Amr, Abdel-Hady El-Gilany, Hanan El-Moafee, Lamea Salama Cristóbal Jimenez. Stress among Mansoura (Egypt) baccalaureate nursing students. The Pan African Medical Journal. 2011;8:26 Key words: Nursing students, stress, Depression , Anxiety, Arab culture, Egypt Permanent link: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/8/26/full Received: 13/01/2011 - Accepted: 06/03/2011 - Published: 16/03/2011 © Mostafa Amr et al. The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Stress among Mansoura (Egypt) baccalaureate nursing students
Mostafa Amr1,&, Abdel-Hady El-Gilany1, Hanan El-Moafee2, Lamea Salama2, Cristóbal Jimenez3
1Departments of Psychiatry and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt, 2Department of Community Nursing, College of Nursing, Mansoura University, Mansoura Egypt, 3Department of Nursing, School of Nursing University of Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain
&Corresponding author
Mostafa Amr, Associate professor of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt - Department of Clinical Neurosciences College of Medicine, KFU, KSA
Over the last years, details regarding levels of stress and sources of stress have emerged in studies of nursing students in Western population To date, there only few similar reports on clinical stress, anxiety, depression among the Arab population .This study was conducted to examine the level of perceived stress among baccalaureate Mansoura nursing students and to highlight the possible predicting factors.
In this cross- sectional study, Data were obtained from 373 students using a self-administered questionnaire, including questions on sociodemographics, list of possible stressors, perceived stress, physical wellbeing factors, anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Prevalence of high stress level, anxiety and depression were 40.2%, 46.6% and 27.9%, respectively. On average each student reported a mean of 4.6 stressors and academic pressures were the most frequent stressors .In regression analysis the number of stressors and global sickness index score were predictors of high stress level.
These findings call for introduction of stress management programs and psychiatric care into nursing health services of the University.
