Nursing Students' Anxiety Levels and Coping Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Temiz Zeynep

doi:10.23937/2469-5823/1510150

Abstract

Anxiety is very prevalent among nursing students even in normal circumstances. In Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing students encountered a new reality of that includes economic uncertainty, fear of infection, the challenges of distance education and more. This study was carried out to determine the relationship between the anxiety levels and the coping methods of nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The COVID-19 virus, which was first observed toward the end of 2019, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020 because 118,000 people had been infected and 4,291 people had died from the virus [1]
This study aims to evaluate the anxiety levels and coping strategies of nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic
90.2% did not have a chronic illness, 91.8% had no relatives or friends infected with COVID-19, and 89.9% did not have a job during the pandemic (Table 1)

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Introduction

The COVID-19 virus, which was first observed toward the end of 2019, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020 because 118,000 people had been infected and 4,291 people had died from the virus [1]. The first COVID-19 case in Turkey was seen on March 10, 2020, and the number of infections grew gradually [2]. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many problems in the world as well as in Turkey. On March 26, 2020, the Counsel of Higher Education declared that no face-to-face classes would be held in the spring term of the 20192020 academic year because of uncertainty about the pandemic, and distance education was put on the agenda in Turkey [7]. In Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing students encountered a new reality of that includes economic uncertainty, fear of infection, the challenges of distance education and more

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