Abstract
Introduction: Nursing students’ experiences during the pandemic provoked social isolation, the way to learn and every context increasing their stress and anxiety leading to drug use and abuse, among others. Problem-based learning (PBL) is a pedagogic strategy to strengthen significant learning; then the objective was to establish PBL influence in nursing students’ experiences on drug use and abuse during COVID-19 contingency. Methods: Qualitative, phenomenological and descriptive paradigm, 12 female and male nursing students aged 20 - 24 years old from the 5th and 6th semesters participated. Information collection was through semi-structured interview and a deep one in four cases. A guide of questions about: How the pandemic impacted your life? How did you face it? And what did you learn during this process? Those questions were used. Qualitative data analysis was based on De Souza Minayo, and signed informed consent was obtained from participants. Results: Students’ experiences allowed four categories to emerge, with six sub-categories. Category I. Students’ experiences on drug use and abuse facing the sanitary contingency; Category II. Students’ skills development to identify a problem and design of appropriate solutions; Category III. Developing skills to favor interpersonal relationships; Category IV. Influence of PBL in nursing students’ experiences on drug use and abuse during the COVID-19 contingency. Conclusion: PBL favored analysis and thoughts in nursing students’ experiences on drug use and abuse during the COVID-19 contingency, they worked collaboratively, developed resilience to daily life situations, and implemented stress coping strategies with their significant learning, which diminished their risk behavior.
Highlights
Nursing students’ experiences during the pandemic provoked social isolation, the way to learn and every context increasing their stress and anxiety leading to drug use and abuse, among others
Nursing students’ experiences on drug use and abuse during COVID-19 contingency allowed them to know their adaptive process to the current pandemic, as well as to analyze what they learned due to social isolation and other preventive measures imposed by the government to avoid contagion
Phenomenology, more than a totalitarian creed or a philosophical system, is a critical and radical attitude to cope with factual reality that experience grants [5], it promotes liberty and expressiveness of the study subject to describe human experiences in nursing students, as they were lived during the sanitary emergency due to COVID-19, emphasizing the Problem-based learning (PBL) that students acquired regarding drug use and abuse [6] [7] [8]
Summary
Nursing students’ experiences during the pandemic provoked social isolation, the way to learn and every context increasing their stress and anxiety leading to drug use and abuse, among others. Problem-based learning (PBL) is a pedagogic strategy to strengthen significant learning; the objective was to establish PBL influence in nursing students’ experiences on drug use and abuse during COVID-19 contingency. Conclusion: PBL favored analysis and thoughts in nursing students’ experiences on drug use and abuse during the COVID-19 contingency, they worked collaboratively, developed resilience to daily life situations, and implemented stress coping strategies with their significant learning, which diminished their risk behavior. Nursing students’ experiences on drug use and abuse during COVID-19 contingency allowed them to know their adaptive process to the current pandemic, as well as to analyze what they learned due to social isolation and other preventive measures imposed by the government to avoid contagion. To reflect on the complex and radical situation for them being at home, the information gave a wide panorama of their behaviors and attitudes during this period, such that is fundamental create timely prevention strategies to train human resources with real challenges, that develop skills to cope and adapt to avoid drug use and
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