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Academic stress and active learning of nursing students: A cross-sectional study
Academic stress and active learning of nursing students: A cross-sectional study
- Source :
- Nurse Education Today. 68:128-133
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- Background The active role of nursing students is particularly important in the delivery of health care, since playing an active role at the bedside and the use of active and collaborative engagement of students in the nursing activities has been associated with improved student learning. This is consistent with Karasek's learning hypothesis, but it has never been tested on nursing students. This study aimed at investigating whether nursing students in high control conditions reported lower levels of work impairment than students in the conditions with low control, compared them with a group of healthcare workers (HCWs), and tested the moderating role of social support at work. Methods 633 nursing students and 160 HCWs completed the Nursing Work Functioning Questionnaire (NWFQ), and the Demand-Control-Support questionnaire (DCS). Findings Results showed that nursing students reported higher levels of work impairment and were less likely to be classified as active (high demand/high control) or low strain (low demand/high control) than HCWs, and that social support at work moderated the association between being in active or low strain condition and work impairment. Conclusions Programs to enhance the learning of nursing students must not only fight strain and isolation but must also promote active learning, by increasing the control over the job, team work, and support from teachers.
- Subjects :
- Male
Active learning
Cross-sectional study
Academic stress
Isostrain
Nurse education
Nursing
Passive behavior
Social support
Work functioning
Adult
Cross-Sectional Studies
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate
Female
Health Personnel
Humans
Middle Aged
Problem-Based Learning
Social Support
Students, Nursing
Surveys and Questionnaires
Stress, Psychological
Nursing (all)2901 Nursing (miscellaneous)
3304
0302 clinical medicine
Health care
030212 general & internal medicine
General Nursing
media_common
Teamwork
030504 nursing
Work (electrical)
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Isolation (health care)
media_common.quotation_subject
education
Control (management)
Baccalaureate
Stress
Education
03 medical and health sciences
Settore MED/44 - MEDICINA DEL LAVORO
Students
business.industry
Psychological
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02606917
- Volume :
- 68
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nurse Education Today
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b07eb0a8d0be676a6f17316cd7542c88
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2018.06.003