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Reducing stress, anxiety and depression in undergraduate nursing students: Systematic review
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Objective Undergraduate nursing students may experience high levels of stress, anxiety or depression. This can not only influence their personal wellbeing and academic performance, but also communication with patients during clinical placement and the quality and safety of the healthcare delivered. The objective of the review was to identify interventions that target stress, anxiety or depressed mood in undergraduate nursing students during their undergraduate course. Review method A quantitative systematic review, guided by the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology, was conducted. The review considered studies that included undergraduate nurses, and which evaluated interventions targeting stress, anxiety and depressed mood. The review included experimental studies published in English from 2008 to 2018. A tabulated and narrative summary was utilised to present the results. Results A total of 1579 studies were identified following a systematic search and 931 studies were screened by title and abstract. A total of 44 studies were critically appraised resulting in 22 studies for inclusion in the systematic review. The studies focused on stress (10 studies), anxiety (14 studies) and depression (7 studies). The majority of the studies (18 of 22) reported a statistically significant reduction in the stress, anxiety or depression experienced by nursing students who participated in interventions targeting these symptoms. Interventions that sought to improve coping management skills, s…
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“Stress, anxiety, and depressed mood in nursing students can lead to poor-quality patient care due to the adverse effects on motivation (Aloufi et al., 2021), communication, learning, clinical practice, and overall academic performance (Goff, 2011;Moscaritolo, 2009;Pulido-Criollo et al., 2018).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Aloufi, M. A., Jarden, R. J., Gerdtz, M. F., & Kapp, S.
- Venue
- Nurse Education Today
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-07
- Volume
- 102
- Pages
- 104877
- ISSN
- 0260-6917
- Cited by
- 227
- References
- 12
- Language
- en
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