Anxıety Levels and Strategıes for Copıng wıth Stress of Nursıng Students at Health College Before Clınıcal Practıce

Objective: this study was conducted to determine anxiety levels and strategies for coping with stress of nursing students at health college before clinical practice, as descriptive and correlational.material-method: the study was conducted with first, second and third class nursing students who will do clinical practice after, between february- march in 2010. because of the small number of students in the school (n = 250), all of the students who accepted to participate in the study (n = 140) were included in the study. data was collected with quastionnaire form, state anxiety inventory (sai) and strategies for coping with stress inventory (scsi). data was evaluated by using descriptive statistics independent t, one way anova (post hoc: bonferroni), mann whitney u, kruskal wallis analysis of variance and pearson corelation tests.results: it is determined that of the students; 82% was girl, 59% was between 18-20 years old, 90% came from out of city, 44% stayed at home with their friends. of the students; 59% told they wanted to come this department as voluntary, 54% preferred it because of job guarantee, 83% loved this job. before the clinical practice, 82% of the students generally lived tension and embarrassment because of unknown about hospital environment, fear of making mistake and not being successful from practice and 63% of them told they could cope with these problems. in the study, anxiety score means were 45.49±10.49 for girls, 40.00±12.35 for boys (p<0.05). also, helpless approach score means that one of sai subgroup scales of girls and hopeful approach scores of boys were higher (p<0.05).conclusions: it is suggested that student’s stress and anxiety levels should be identified and strengthened before the clinical practice for achieve to desired benefits on clinical practice.