Pre-registration nursing students' anxiety and academic concerns after the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A cross-sectional study

Autor: Dania Comparcini, Marco Tomietto, Giancarlo Cicolini, Geoffrey L. Dickens, Katlego Mthimunye, Stefano Marcelli, Valentina Simonetti
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nurse education today. 118
ISSN: 1532-2793
0260-6917
Popis: Background\ud The pandemic and its related social restrictions have led to many uncertainties in nursing education, including the fear of infection in clinical learning settings and the challenge of remote learning. The modification of clinical and academic environments generated anxiety and academic concerns among nursing students.\ud \ud Objectives\ud To explore the main determinants of anxiety related to the clinical and classroom environments in nursing education after the second wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic.\ud \ud Design\ud Multicentre cross-sectional study.\ud \ud Settings\ud Ten Universities offering nursing bachelor programs in central and southern Italy.\ud \ud Participants\ud A convenience sample of 842 nursing students.\ud \ud Methods\ud From April to July 2021, the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and the Altered Student Study Environment Tool were administered to assess, respectively, students' anxiety and their concerns about the study environment. A regression model was tested.\ud \ud Results\ud Most of the nursing students were female (76.6 %), living with family (70.9 %), and full-time students (85.7 %); 44.6 % were third-year of Bachelor in Nursing students. The majority of the participants (88.5 %) showed a level of anxiety. The statistically significant predictors of anxiety levels were concerns about grade attainment (β=0.42, p
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