Vol. 8, Issue 10, Part A (2022)

Title: Anxiety level of first year nursing students prior to clinical posting.

Purpose of study: A similar feeling that can be seen in everyone is anxiety. With stress comes anxiety. It is described as feeling of persistent and excessive fear or insecurity about potential problems. The first day of clinical posting will be always remembered as a fearful and nervous experience. If the student feel extremely stressful and anxious after clinical postings they may bunk the clinical posting, get absent deliberately or they may even discontinue the courses. Therefore, it becomes very important to understand the anxiety level of students. So there is need to assess the anxiety in nursing students.

Material and Method: This was initiated after receiving approval from institutional Ethics Committee. One Hundred first year nursing students who were about to be posted in the clinical postings in the nursing colleges were included in the study to assess the level of anxiety. The study method was Quantitative and its design was Descriptive and Non-probability purposive sampling method were used in the study. Demographic and Questionnaire for assessing anxiety level of first year nursing students prior to clinical posting these tools were used to collect the data and record the study variables. The data was collected by using forms and accordingly the excel sheet was prepared and proper statistical measures were used to analyse data. The association of the demographic variables with anxiety level of first year nursing students prior clinical postings score was considered significant at 0.05 level and below.

Result: The association revealed that religion and mother’s education is having calculated p-value less than 0.05 so these two demographic variables are associated with the anxiety level of the first year nursing students and all other demographic variables are having p-value more than 0.05 so these all other remaining variables are not associated with the anxiety level of the Ist year nursing students. It also shows that religion and mother’s education is having First-year nursing students' anxiety levels are predicted by these two demographic factors because their calculated chi square value is greater than their chi square table value. All other demographics have calculated chi square values that are smaller than their chi square table values. These all other remaining variables are not associated with the anxiety level of the first year nursing students.

Conclusion: The findings revealed that majority 80% first year nursing students are having moderate anxiety prior the clinical postings. In the association, Religion and mother’s occupation were associated with the anxiety level of the first year nursing students.