Psychosocial Barriers Facing Nursing Students in their Academic Career

Abstract

Background: University students face numerous stressors and academic demands as study, family and work commitments which contribute to exacerbation of mental health problems. Developmental challenges including increased freedoms, decision making, challenging family beliefs engaging in risky behaviors, or pressure to do well. This study aimed to: Assess psychosocial barriers facing nursing students in their academic career. Design: A descriptive design was used to conduct this study. Setting: This study was conducted at faculty of nursing in Suhag University. Subjects: A purposive sample of 112 students Tools of data collection: First tool: socio demographic sheet questionnaire. Second tool: A-psychological barriers questionnaire. B- social barriers questionnaire. Results: the present study show that 65.2% of the studied nursing students their age ranged between 20-22 years with mean 20.46 and, 56.3% of them agreed about want to stop studying nursing due to its requirements and 70.5% of them agreed that personal problems effect on their studies Also, 75.9% of them can exchange ideas with their colleagues about how to improve their study. Conclusion: there were positive correlation and significant relation between the total score of Psychological Barriers and total score of Social Barriers. Also, age, gender, social status, residence, level of education, living in university housing and living with both parents as factors that affect the students in their academic career.. Recommendation: conducting Training sessions and workshops should be organized to overcome psychological and social barriers and orientation program should b done to help student in their study.