Antonio Chaves, Sandra Arnáez, Gemma García-Soriano
The Effectiveness of a Cell Phone eHealth App in Changing Knowledge, Stigmatizing Attitudes, and Intention to Seek Help Associated With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Pilot Questionnaire Study
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
clinical clerkships lie core nursing education crucial developing professional skills however nursing students especially freshmen often encounter significant stress clinical experiences study investigated effect stress management program firstyear nursing students clinical stress levels randomized controlled experimental study adopted pretestposttestfollowup test research design participants recruited using simple randomization sample consisted 64 firstyear nursing students intervention 32 control 32 nursing department faculty health sciences university trkiye participants randomized intervention control groups intervention group attended stress management program one weekly session five weeks intervention research conducted 21022022 20052022 data collected using personal information form perceived stress scale physiopsychosocial response scale coping behavior inventory data collected pretest posttest intervention two months followup test data analyzed using twoway repeated measures analysis variance anova changes perceived stress scale mean scores grouptime interaction statistically significant p 005 results showed changes coping behavior inventory problemsolving subscale mean scores grouptime interaction statistically significant p 005 multiple comparisons showed statistically significant difference posttest physiopsychosocial response scale social behavioral symptoms emotional symptoms subscale scores intervention control groups p 005 multiple comparisons showed statistically significant difference posttest coping behavior inventory problemsolving avoidance subscale scores intervention control groups p 005 stress management program helps firstyear nursing students experience less stress develop problemsolving skills perform clinical clerkships also allows suffer fewer emotional social behavioral symptoms exhibit fewer avoidance behaviors