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Stress, anxiety, and depression among nursing students
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Stress, anxiety, and depression among nursing studentsNursing has been considered over time as one of the most stressful professions across the world. In the medical arena, nurses are still the most group to record high mental health issues as compared to other practitioners in the medical facilities (Frank Pulido-Criollo, Jonathan Cueto-Escobedo and Gabriel Guillén- Ruiz, 2018). Nursing students go through a lot of new experiences during their studies. Some go to nursing schools fresh out of childhood and barely exposed to certain phenomena such as dead bodies. Various work-related factors the student nurses experience during their practices have been associated with the high prevalence of mental disorders such as anxiety, stress, and depression among the nursing students.
The mental health of nurses is important because working under stress, anxiety, and depression may lead to occupational accidents, poor performance at work, and poor attitude at the workplace. The health of nurses should also be taken into account since they spend most of the time with the patients and underlying mental disorders could cause poor attendance of patients, endangering of the lives of the patients, and clinical ineffectiveness, which is a bad look for the entire medical facility. Both the nurse and the medical facility could lose their credibility in the market due to the damaged reputation and poor efficiency.
Statement of the purpose
Studies can generally be stressing, and all kinds of student tend to develop mental issues such as anxiety and depression. Students generally go through a rough patch of the lives during campus and college studies. Nursing student falls under this category of people and have similar experiences as most of the other students in different career paths (Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Caitlin Slevin, Lisa Militello, Jacqueline Hoying, Alice Teall, Colleen McGovern, 2016). Issues arise due to stressors such as interpersonal relations with fellow students, intrapersonal conflict, and even external issues such as the economy.
In the medical field, lots of factors contribute to mental disorders apart from just learning. Student nurses have to go through intense and exhausting activities both in the labs and the hospital where they carry out their practices. Such experiences may affect the student even in their adulthood since they experience stress at a very young age as they are learning. Stress can also slow the learning process among the students, which may in overall reduce the overall chances of achieving academic success. The prevalence of mental disorders is quite high in medical students especially the nurse which is what prompted looking into the mental health of student nurses to save a generation from poor productivity and inefficiency in the healthcare systems.
Hypothesis
Many students have been spotted as exhibiting weird behaviors in colleges which is directly related to their relationships and the environment. Before the study, it was expected that the students would exhibit some mental health issues or rather have an explanation to their way of living and the way they conduct themselves day in day out.
Sample
The study was conducted on a sample of 242 undergraduate nursing students of over 18 years at a public university in U. S. A. all the sampled students were enrolled in the Baccalaureate Nursing Program.
Method
Data was collected through a survey whereby students were surveyed online. They received the pre-survey email alongside the recruitment brochures and the survey links, other email follows up and the last appreciation word. The survey was 15 minutes long, and each student received a $10 incentive for completing the survey.
Results
A total of 242 nursing students completed the survey. From the sample, 30% of the students were obese, 56.8% were sedentary. Approximately 66.7% of the student reported poor sleep, 56.6% reported symptoms of anxiety, and 54.5% reported symptoms of depression.
Students, especially in colleges, have mental issues which cause the unusual behavior they often exhibit. Poor sleep and sedentary is associated with depression and anxiety (Yuan Zhang, Anya Peters, Guanling Chen, 2018). This could lead to the poor performances of the student in their studies which may force the faculty to retain or let go of most of the student who may not make to an average in their classwork. Those who struggle through may end up with the mental disorder even in their adulthood which tends to interfere with the workability of the nurses in the future.
The students were also determined to indulge in poor eating habits with limited or no physical activity and exercises. According to the above results, 30% of the nursing students turned out to be overweight. Such may contribute to the magnitude of depression or even be one of the contributing stressors to the mind of the students in colleges. The lifestyle of most of the students is not up to standards which contribute to the mental issues associated with them.
In summary, students, especially in medical schools, are exposed to several potential triggers to mental disorders such long study hours, repetitive and exhausting routine, personal issues, poor relationships with others, and external factors such poverty and economical liabilities. The above stressors contribute to the development of common health issues such as lack of sleep, poor eating habits, depression, stress, and anxiety.
References
BIBLIOGRAPHY Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Caitlin Slevin, Lisa Militello, Jacqueline Hoying, Alice Teall, Colleen McGovern. (2016). Physical health, lifestyle beliefs and behaviors, and mental health of entering graduate health professional students: Evidence to support screening and early intervention. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 204-211.
Frank Pulido-Criollo, Jonathan Cueto-Escobedo, and Gabriel Guillén- Ruiz. (2018, September 19). Stress in Nursing University Students and Mental Health. Retrieved from Health and Academic Achievement, Blandina Bernal-Morales, IntechOpen: https://www.intechopen.com/books/health-and-academic-achievement/stress-in-nursing-university-students-and-mental-health
Yuan Zhang, Anya Peters, Guanling Chen. (2018). PerceivedStressMediatestheAssociations betweenSleepQualityandSymptomsofAnxiety andDepressionamongCollegeNursingStudents. InternationalJournalofNursingEducationScholarship , 1-9.
ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
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The debate about the presence of anxiety and depression experienced later in life might be a close relationship to a person’s past and especially their childhood experiences. Some of these experiences are trauma and generally experiences which were not pleasant (Nemeroff, 2004). It is therefore upon this that we can develop various hypotheses in line with anxiety disorders and depression; some of the hypotheses for this paper include;
Post-traumatic stress anxiety and depression is a sign that a person did not heal completely from the traumatic experiences which they experienced during their childhood or during the time they experienced trauma and stress like after losing their job.
Childhood trauma experience has a very close and straightforward relation to a person’s mental issues when they are grown especially on issues to do with a persons anxiety and depression
Schizophrenia is a sign of depression and it displays the different ways the pain and the emotional torture a child experiences when they are young is expressed through their behaviour
If a person gets warm and good social treatment when they are young and they are provided with the necessary love and support needed at this point then they are unable to display excessive depression and anxiety later in life.
The first hypothesis talks of how depression and anxiety is an indication of a need for continued care and love which has to be given to those suffering from this issue. Once there is enough love then most of the time the feeling of being un-important fades away. The feeling of having lost everything is worked on so that it does not affect a person’s entire life and the generalizations they make about themselves and who they are in life. Childhood trauma is stated to be a clear and direct factor towards the quality of a person’s mental health issues, the intensity as well as their ability to control what happens to them. Another way in which the childhood trauma expresses itself clearly from the time a person reaches the adolescent years is through schizophrenia which is a sign of depression. This makes a person restless and unable to sleep and this is a problem that needs to be looked into urgently once the hypothesis is confirmed as true and therefore remedies to be availed to make sure that schizophrenia does not adversely affect a person (Lubin, et, al., 2003).
Therefore the assertion that a childhood’s early years can affect them when grown up, is portrayed through their social life later in life. The question that a person’s later life is mainly based on how the child’s upbringing takes place, indicates a central place in the life of the adults and their evaluation for early life trauma. The major cause for depression, trauma and anxiety can be related to parents disciplining behaviours. Most of the times the parents never wish to hurt their children but rather through the process of disciplining it later becomes a psychological issue and torture which brings them anxiety and depression. Therefore basically the research question is justifiable through the discussion of the major tenets which affect a person’s mental health and are a causative agent towards anxiety and depression.
According to Freud’s, (Barnes, 1952), the stages in which a child develops from the time they are born and if they receive what their bodies need both physically and emotionally determines the different ways in which to heal and deal with what happened to the person in question. Therefore for cases of anxiety and depression there is a need for special care and unconditional love accorded to these individual to alleviate their depression and anxiety related to early life experiences.
D. Criteria for causality
Even though it is true that a person needs to have emotional balance this does not happen always and therefore most people get into depression and anxiety when they are unable to get what they want. Therefore when children do not get proper emotional care, they develop different ways of dealing with the trauma they experience in their lives at different stages. The manner in which the variables and the tenets herein are related is of great significance as it creates trust, love peace, and harmony. For example, if a person does not get emotional stability when they were young, however with growing up they come to live with a very good family which provides emotional support then it becomes very easy to blend and heal. This means depression and anxiety might not affect them adversely. However, this does not always happen automatically and therefore the need to take care of one another.
The correlation between anxiety, depression and the role of family is a very important one. Most of the families do not experience harmony and total peace. However, a person has to be able to move on and live a good life. The desire for these wishes and needs at that particular time even though great and important might not always be possible. This leads to understanding how the different people in the society view and manage their lives as well as how they can manage to fulfill the innate desires of their bodies of being loved and accepted. The time taken between when a person experiences stress and when depression is visible to the outside world is also of great significance. This is because what a person experiences when they are kids, may show up so much later in life or might show very early in a person’s life. Therefore when a person experiences the effects of their childhood then it means that they had negative experiences therefore the need for proper guidance, love, and compassion for their lives become important instrument (El‐Sheikh, 2007).
The intensity of trauma when a person is a child may be taken as the independent variables and the other variables like the time taken to show up, the ability for a person to trust among other factors which are of great significance in the life of the individual affected. The relationship between these variables leads us to the conclusions and discussion that if the intensity of trauma a child experienced is increased then it means that the child will experience more effects like anxiety and depression later in life, however, if the intensity of trauma is low then it means that a person’s experiences later in life are not very many and complex like the situation of having had a lot of trauma when the child was young.
References
Barnes, C. A. (1952). A statistical study of the Freudian theory of levels of psychosexual development. Genetic Psychology Monographs.Cherry, Kendra. “Freud’s Psychosexual Stages of Development.” Verywell Mind, Verywellmind, 12 Jan. 2006, www.verywellmind.com/freuds-stages-of-psychosexual-development-2795962.
El‐Sheikh, M., Buckhalt, J. A., Mark Cummings, E., & Keller, P. (2007). Sleep disruptions and emotional insecurity are pathways of risk for children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(1), 88-96.
Lubit, R., Rovine, D., Defrancisci, L., & Eth, S. (2003). Impact of trauma on children. Journal of Psychiatric Practice®, 9(2), 128-138.
Nemeroff, C. B. (2004). Neurobiological consequences of childhood trauma. The Journal of clinical psychiatry.
Stress, anxiety, and depression among nursing students (2)
Stress, anxiety, and depression among nursing studentsName:
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Stress, anxiety, and depression among nursing studentsNursing has been considered over time as one of the most stressful professions across the world. In the medical arena, nurses are still the most group to record high mental health issues as compared to other practitioners in the medical facilities. Nursing students go through a lot of new experiences during their studies. Some go to nursing schools fresh out of childhood and barely exposed to certain phenomena such as dead bodies. Various work-related factors the student nurses experience during their practices have been associated with the high prevalence of mental disorders such as anxiety, stress, and depression among the nursing students.
The mental health of nurses is important because working under stress, anxiety, and depression may lead to occupational accidents, poor performance at work, and poor attitude at the workplace. The health of nurses should also be taken into account since they spend most of the time with the patients and underlying mental disorders could cause poor attendance of patients, endangering of the lives of the patients, and clinical ineffectiveness, which is a bad look for the entire medical facility. Both the nurse and the medical facility could lose their credibility in the market due to the damaged reputation and poor efficiency.
Statement of the purpose
Studies can generally be stressing, and all kinds of student tend to develop mental issues such as anxiety and depression. Students generally go through a rough patch of the lives during campus and college studies. Nursing student falls under this category of people and have similar experiences as most of the other students in different career paths CITATION Ber16 l 1033 (Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Caitlin Slevin, Lisa Militello, Jacqueline Hoying, Alice Teall, Colleen McGovern, 2016). Issues arise due to stressors such as interpersonal relations with fellow students, intrapersonal conflict, and even external issues such as the economy.
In the medical field, lots of factors contribute to mental disorders apart from just learning. Student nurses have to go through intense and exhausting activities both in the labs and the hospital where they carry out their practices. Such experiences may affect the student even in their adulthood since they experience stress at a very young age as they are learning. Stress can also slow the learning process among the students, which may in overall reduce the overall chances of achieving academic success. The prevalence of mental disorders is quite high in medical students especially the nurse which is what prompted looking into the mental health of student nurses to save a generation from poor productivity and inefficiency in the healthcare systems.
Hypothesis
Many students have been spotted as exhibiting weird behaviours in colleges which are directly related to their relationships and the environment. Before the study, it was expected that the students would exhibit some mental health issues or rather have an explanation to their way of living and the way they conduct themselves day in day out.
Sample
The study was conducted on a sample of 242 undergraduate nursing students of over 18 years at a public university in U. S. A. all the sampled students were enrolled in the Baccalaureate Nursing Program. A similar study was conducted on a sample of 93 health sciences students from seven different colleges in the Midwest United States. Adequate first-year graduate students of health sciences were recruited from the seven colleges. They were informed of the study following a seminar on interprofessional education and practice whereby students were emailed and issued with fliers. A total of 93 of the students sanctioned. The students consented in recruitment and were all 18 years and above.
Method
Data was collected through a survey whereby students were surveyed online. They received the pre-survey email alongside the recruitment brochures and the survey links, other email follows up and the last appreciation word. The survey was 15 minutes long, and each student received a $10 incentive for completing the survey. The other study, on the other hand, data was collected through CheckboxR survey software and biometric screens. The checkbox consisted of demographics, the Healthy Lifestyle Beliefs Scale, Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Scale, Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9), General Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7), Brief Inventory of Perceived Stress (BIPS), and single items regarding healthy lifestyle behaviours such as physical activity and smoking. The students were recruited into the study with their full consent. Emails and flyers were sent out to the students after the seminar on interprofessional education and practice.
Results
A total of 242 nursing students completed the survey. From the sample, 30% of the students were obese, 56.8% were sedentary. Approximately 66.7% of the student reported poor sleep, 56.6% reported symptoms of anxiety, and 54.5% reported symptoms of depression.
From the other study, approximately 40% of the sample was overweight, while 19% of the students reported elevated total cholesterol levels. 40% of the students reported elevated depressive symptoms, and further, 28 % of the students reported elevated anxiety. Inverse relationships were also recorded among depression and anxiety, and healthy lifestyle beliefs with four students reporting suicidal thoughts tendencies. 44% of the students, which is below half of them, registered active participation in the recommended 30 minutes exercise 5 days a week.
Students, especially in colleges, have mental issues which cause the unusual behavior they often exhibit. The issues are derived from the various relationships in the school system. Poor sleep and sedentary is associated with depression and anxiety CITATION Yua18 l 1033 (Yuan Zhang, Anya Peters, Guanling Chen, 2018). This could lead to the poor performances of the student in their studies which may force the faculty to retain or let go of most of the student who may not make to an average in their classwork. Those who struggle through may end up with the mental disorder even in their adulthood which tends to interfere with the workability of the nurses in the future.
The students were also determined to indulge in poor eating habits with limited or no physical activity and exercises. According to the above results, 30% of the nursing students turned out to be overweight with poor physical activity and exercise. From the wellness assessment study, only 44% of the students met the recommended physical exercise requirements, while approximately 40% of the students were reportedly obese. Such may contribute to the magnitude of depression or even be one of the contributing stressors to the mind of the students in colleges. The lifestyle of most of the students is not up to standards which contribute to the mental issues associated with them.
In summary, students, especially in medical schools, are exposed to several potential triggers to mental disorders such long study hours, repetitive and exhausting routine, personal issues, poor relationships with others, and external factors such poverty and economical liabilities. The above stressors contribute to the development of common health issues such as lack of sleep, poor eating habits, depression, stress, and anxiety.
References
BIBLIOGRAPHY Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Caitlin Slevin, Lisa Militello, Jacqueline Hoying, Alice Teall, Colleen McGovern. (2016). Physical health, lifestyle beliefs and behaviours, and mental health of entering graduate health professional students: Evidence to support screening and early intervention. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 204-211.
Yuan Zhang, Anya Peters, Guanling Chen. (2018). PerceivedStressMediatestheAssociations betweenSleepQualityandSymptomsofAnxiety andDepressionamongCollegeNursingStudents. InternationalJournalofNursingEducationScholarship , 1-9.