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Introduction:Test anxiety is known to have an impact on students either negatively or positively. It is normal to have exam anxiety that help the students to be prepared them for facing examination, on the other hand it can also distress the students that can have a negative impact on students’ physically, emotionally, cognitively that paves a way to poor performance in the examination. Objective:The purpose of this study is to find the prevalence and levels of test anxiety in the sample population. Methods:The current study sample includes 60 first year nursing students from Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, Malaysia. Thecross sectional study design was applied and sample population was selected with universal sampling. The data was analysed using SPSS statistics Version 22 (IBM Co., Armonk, NY, USA).The descriptive data analysis was used for the analysis of the prevalence, percentages and mean score. Results:The study results revealed that only 1.7% respondents no anxiety, 36.7% respondents experienced of mild anxiety, more than half 58.3% respondents had moderate anxiety and 3.3% respondents experienced of severe anxiety. Conclusion:Majority of first year nursing students experienced test anxiety. The implications of this study is giving overview of mind-body interventions to get helped to have normal anxiety during their exams; the faculty, lecturer or advisor should find out the main factors contributing test anxiety and also should have some wellness programmes for the students.

A child is a unique individual; he or she is not a miniature adult, not a little man or woman. The childhood process is vital because of socialization process by the transmission of attitude, customs, and behavior through the influence of the family and community. Some children become sick and need hospitalization, Anxiety is the greatest stress imposed by hospitalization during early child hood. Play is one of the non-pharmacological therapy which act as an important part of life and foster the growth and development of child. Play also reduces anxiety of child during hospitalization. Quantitative research approach was selected with quasi experimental pretest-posttest control group design. Purposive sampling was used. Sample size was 50 that is 25 each in experimental group and control group. The researcher assessed the anxiety of hospitalized children using structured anxiety rating scale. After conducting a pretest for both experimental and control group, play was introduced to the experimental group. The experimental group received play for 30 min a day, for 3 days and no intervention was given to the control group. Post test was conducted on the third day using the same tool, to both the groups. The result shows that, in experimental group 38% of children had mild anxiety and 12% had moderate anxiety. In control group 44% children had moderate anxiety and 6% children had severe anxiety in the post test. It is found that the calculated t value is greater than table value. It was concluded that there was significant difference in anxiety score among hospitalized children in experimental group than the control group. The finding of the study suggest that play is an effective therapy in reducing anxiety of hospitalized children.