Factor of stress and coping strategies among Undergraduate Nursing Students at UNIMAS
| dc.contributor.author | EMELYN YEK YII NYNN | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-04-08T02:32:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description | Nursing is a profession that helps individuals, groups, families, and communities in health promotion, illness prevention, care of sick patients from physical, mental, and disabled perspectives, and rehabilitation (Santy-Tomlinson et al., 2018). People cannot deny that nursing is among the toughest and most worn professions, especially during pandemics. Therefore, as nursing students, they will experience a higher level of stress than other course students as they need to meet both clinical and academic requirements in their studies as a result they need to sacrifice their semester break. Stressful course subjects, long study sessions, and the requirement for critical thinking were some challenges nursing students faced. Moreover, clinical placement, interface worries and personal factors are stressors among undergraduate nursing students. Findings from a few studies indicate that academic load is the main source of stress due to classwork, examinations and fear of failing. Even though stress is a natural and usually difficult to handle, a good coping technique can facilitate students to enhance their academic performance. Therefore, this research was conducted to explore the stressors and coping strategies of undergraduate nursing students. A quantitative and cross-sectional study design had conducted among 143 undergraduate nursing students in UNIMAS through simple random sampling. The data was analysed through SPSS version 27 and data was collected through online Google Form. From this study, we found that undergraduate nursing students in UNIMAS often encounter stress issues due to academic factors (45.3%), followed by clinical factors (41.7%) and personal issues (26.6%). The most typical used coping strategies among undergraduate nursing students were the use of emotional support, acceptance and positive reframing. From this study, there was a significant relationship (p < .05) between year of study and clinical matters as well as year of study and personal issues. Furthermore, parents’ monthly income, gender iv and living in college has significant correlation with coping mechanisms. Findings from this study will help nursing institutions better understand students’ source of stress and their coping strategies. The findings from the students coping strategies could be shared and recommended to other nursing students for future guidance. It will improve their academic and clinical performance and help develop professional identity among nursing students (Kassim, 2024; Sollerhed & Bringsén, 2023). Thus, mental health illness and burnout among students will gradually reduce (Zheng et al., 2023). Keywords: | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://scholarhub.unimas.my/handle/123456789/310 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.publisher | UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences | |
| dc.subject | Nursing, stress, coping mechanisms, undergraduate nursing students, UNIMAS, academic, clinical | |
| dc.title | Factor of stress and coping strategies among Undergraduate Nursing Students at UNIMAS | |
| dc.type | Final Year Project |