Psychological Stress Experienced by Final Year Nursing Students: Role of the clinical environment

Previous studies have shown that nursing students do experience stress. This study adopted the Transactional Stress and Coping Model (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984) to examine the clinical environment factors associated with stress experienced by nursing students. The cross-sectional study design was used, and data were collected over a two-month period in 2019. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. 420 samples were recruited using the simple random sampling technique. Based on the one-way ANOVA test, there was a significant mean difference between primary appraisal scores and secondary appraisal scores. The resilience level was significantly associated with the level of stress.