Anxiety Coping Strategies Research Articles

Coping Strategies for English Language Anxiety: A Comparative Study of Lecturers and Students Across Disciplines

This study investigates the efficacy of coping strategies for English language anxiety among lecturers and students within religious and general study programs, employing a mixed-methods approach that integrates quantitative T-tests and qualitative interviews. Results indicate significant differences in the anxiety-coping strategies between lecturers and students, with distinct variations across the two types of study programs. While strategies among religious and general program lecturers showed no significant differences, a marked contrast was observed between students of these programs, highlighting the influence of disciplinary context on anxiety management. The study reveals that lecturers and students successfully use tailored strategies to mitigate language anxiety, suggesting the importance of contextualized approaches. Based on these findings, it is recommended that educational institutions develop specific training programs that enhance the capability of educators and students to manage language anxiety effectively. Such programs should focus on communication techniques, psychological resilience, and cultural awareness, which are crucial in diverse academic environments. The implications of this research support a differentiated approach to language education policy, advocating for interventions sensitive to the unique challenges and needs of various academic disciplines.

Patient Education Materials for Immobilisation Masks in Radiation Therapy for Adult Head and Neck Cancer Patients: A Scoping Review.

Immobilisation masks (IMs) are used for people with head and neck cancer (HNC) undergoing radiation therapy (RT) treatment to ensure accuracy and reproducibility between treatments. Claustrophobia-related mask anxiety in HNC patients is common and can compromise treatment due to patient distress. This scoping review aimed to describe the content of publicly available Patient Education Materials (PEMs) for people with HNC undergoing RT. Three search engines (Bing, Yahoo, and Google) were systematically searched using standard terms. PEMs in audio-visual or written formats were eligible for inclusion if the target readership was adults with HNC and included content on IMs for RT. Content was appraised using the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool for Printable and Audio-Visual Materials to assess understandability and actionability. In total, 304 PEMs were identified of which 20 met the inclusion criteria. Sixteen PEMs were webpages, three were PDF format, and one was a standalone video. The understandability and actionability of PEMs ranged between 47 to 100% and 0 to 80%, respectively. PEMs authored by Foundations/Organisations scored higher in understandability (80-100%) and were more likely to discuss mask anxiety coping strategies. In comparison, News sites and IM manufacturers published PEMs with the lowest understandability scores (20-80%). The significant variations in the quality of IM PEMs identified suggest that some sources may be more effective at informing patients about IMs. Although multiple aspects of the PEMs were consistent across the reviewed materials, many PEMs lacked information, and a stronger focus on understandability and actionability is required.

Social media usage is associated with lower knowledge about anxiety and indiscriminate use of anxiety coping strategies.

Social media usage is associated with lower knowledge about anxiety and indiscriminate use of anxiety coping strategies.

Exploring the Studies on Speaking Anxiety in Second/Foreign Language Learning

Emotions have been attracting researchers’ attention for a long time, especially anxiety, which is a negative emotion that has an adverse effect on second language/foreign language (SL/FL) studies and the results obtained. One of the most well-researched emotional elements in SL/FL is the FL/SL speaking anxiety. This paper reviews the previous theories and empirical studies focusing on SL/FL speaking anxiety. Scholars agree that SL/FL speaking anxiety mostly hinders the learning process, speaking performance, and outcomes. According to previous empirical studies, researchers employed instruments such as diaries, interviews, and questionnaires and discovered that many FL/SL learners are suffering from moderate to severe levels of anxiety when speaking an SL/FL. Their SL/FL speaking anxiety is a result of concerns about committing mistakes, fear of peers’ mocking and being negatively assessed by teachers, inadequate vocabulary and grammar knowledge, concerns about examinations, insufficient exposure to FL outside of the classroom, lack of preparation, the inability to understand the interlocutors’ words, and so on. Since it is important to enhance SL/FL learners’ speaking skills, many scholars have come up with anxiety coping strategies to alleviate SL/FL learners’ speaking anxiety.

Anxiety and depression symptoms among a sample of Khartoum civilians during the 2023 Sudan armed conflict: A cross-sectional study.

Mental health during armed conflicts is of paramount importance, as such situations often lead to increased risks of anxiety and depression symptoms among civilians. The military conflict between the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces, which began on April 15, 2023, is currently ongoing mainly in Khartoum State. Despite the significant impact of the conflict on the region, there is a lack of data regarding the mental health status of the residents. The aim of this study is to assess anxiety and depression symptoms among residents of Khartoum State during the first months of the 2023 military conflict. We conducted a cross-sectional study among residents of Khartoum State between May 27 and June 19 using an online questionnaire. We used standardized screening questionnaires, namely the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) for anxiety and the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) for depression. Multiple logistic regression was used to identify sociodemographic factors that are associated with anxiety and depression symptoms. Out of the 393 participants in the study, 70% had symptoms suggestive of depression and 57.3% suffered from anxiety symptoms. Both anxiety and depression were associated with being female (p < 0.001). Being married was a predictor of anxiety (p = 0.028) but not depression (p = 0.3). Other predictors were not significant (p > 0.05). High levels of anxiety and depression symptoms were prevalent among Khartoum residents during the conflict, with females and married individuals at higher risk. Immediate medical assessment is essential for identifying cases and providing support. Mental health services should be integrated into emergency response efforts, particularly focusing on vulnerable groups. Future research should address study limitations and explore coping strategies for anxiety and depression in Sudanese adults.

Climate anxiety, coping strategies and planning for the future in environmental degree students in the UK.

There is increasing recognition of the mental health burden of climate change and the effects on general well-being, even in those who have not (yet) experienced direct impacts. Climate anxiety, which is prominent among young people in particular, describes a state of heightened distress about the (future) effects of climate change. Despite evidence of a link between engagement in climate change issues and heightened climate anxiety, there is a dearth of knowledge on how this affects emerging professionals preparing for careers in the environmental sector. Furthermore, there is a paucity of literature regarding the extent to which young adults are coping with their thoughts and feelings about climate change, and the extent to which they consider climate change in making future plans. The aim of this study was to understand the occurrence and personal management of climate anxiety in UK university students through an online questionnaire. This study was the first to investigate the association between climate anxiety, coping strategies and future planning in university students. Environmental degree students (n = 249) reported greater levels of climate anxiety, more frequent employment of all three examined coping strategies and in particular considered climate change as a factor in their career plans, as compared to their non-environmental degree counterparts (n = 224). Problem-focused coping was the most commonly endorsed strategy, although the prior literature on coping suggests that this may not be sustainable for individually intractable problems. Highly climate-anxious students were more likely to consider climate change in all five decision-making domains, including family planning, long-term habitation, career, financial and travel decisions. This study has identified a need to communicate effective climate anxiety coping strategies to environmental practitioners, university students and educators. Additional research is required to validate the study findings and investigate what motivates students to incorporate climate change into future plans.

INTERVENSI KEPERAWATAN KECEMASAN PADA PASIEN PRE OPERASI: LITERATUR REVIEW

Nursing Interventions for Anxiety in Patients Preoperative: Literature Review Background: o ne of the psychological effects of surgery is anxiety (Sutejo, 2018). Anxiety management can be done in pharmacology (doctors) or non-pharmacology (nurses). One of the preoperative anxiety nursing interventions was learned through the identification of various related studies / Integrated Literature Review (IRL). Thus the authors are interested in identifying How Anxiety Nursing Interventions in Patients Pre Operative: Literature Review. Objective: identifying anxiety nursing interventions in preoperative patients. Methods: t he study was conducted using the Literature Review method. The steps are: problem identification, literature search, data identification, data analysis and reporting. Literature search using Google Scholar and Garuda Portal with inclusion criteria, namely Indonesian language articles, full text, and discussing preoperative patient anxiety. Results: t here are 7 journals that fit the inclusion criteria. Researchers divided into five pre-operative anxiety nursing interventions: one journal (14%) explained identification of anxiety levels, two journals (29%) about anxiety coping strategies, two journals (29%) about nonpharmacological interventions reduced anxiety levels, one journal ( 14%) about the regulation of emotional anxiety, and one journal (14%) about anxiety management. Conclusion: a nxiety nursing interventions in preoperative patients with anxiety identification, coping strategies, nonpharmacological interventions (music therapy, lavender oil administration, Wack Wednesday, healing touch, and hand reflexology), emotional regulation, and anxiety management.

Elementary prospective teachers’ visions of moving beyond mathematics anxiety

Previous studies of prospective elementary mathematics teachers’ mathematics anxiety have documented that many prospective teachers often worry about managing their repeated experiences of anxiety while developing their pedagogical and content knowledge to teach mathematics. The literature further indicates the importance of developing learning opportunities for prospective teachers to confront their past experiences while they (re)learn and learn to teach mathematics during methods courses. This study is situated within one such learning opportunity and seeks to analyze potential mathematics anxiety coping strategies generated by forty-eight prospective elementary teachers enrolled in a mathematical methods course. Written responses generated by the prospective teachers were subjected to qualitative thematic analysis to identify patterns of key ideas related to lesson planning for content they felt anxious and/or not confident about teaching and patterns focused on episodes of mathematics anxiety they might experience in the moment of teaching mathematics. Findings indicate that prospective teachers envision using between two and seven strategies grouped across eight coping strategy themes when given the opportunity to reflect on how they might deal with future instances of anxiety when they are tasked with teaching mathematics to their students. We highlight how some of the coping strategies that the prospective teachers envisioned as a means to cope with mathematics anxiety may have more potential to be helpful than others and present implications of our research for mathematics teacher educators.

Coping strategies of students for anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: a cross-sectional study

Background: COVID-19 has severely affected university students everywhere in the world. Due to fear of infection, government and local authorities in China immediately closed academic institutions and tried to find survival techniques to cope with market turbulence. COVID-19 was present in China at the end of 2019. However, little attention has been paid by researchers to coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic, and few measures were taken to assess the coping strategies of university students, specifically following the closure of their institutions. To address this gap, this study attempted to discover the coping strategies of Chinese students during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Methods: We conducted an online survey using a semi-structured questionnaire with a simple random sampling technique and received 559 responses. The survey questions captured information about students’ lives during the COVID-19 outbreak, actions to control anxiety, and what students care about during the pandemic. The associations between coping strategies used and levels of anxiety were tested using analysis of variance (ANOVA) procedures. SPSS Statistics v27 was used for statistical analysis in this study. Results: The university students reported that coping strategies and survival techniques were required due to high levels of anxiety and psychological pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the respondents reported the prompt closure of their academic institutions due to COVID-19. Psychological concerns, such as lack of sleep, emotional support, mental support and social appeal, were also reported. Conclusions: This is one of the very first studies on coping strategies for anxiety in China. The study reveals that university students employ a number of coping strategies in relation to COVID-19, but also suggests a need to strengthen such strategies in this population. However, the study was limited to a small number of provinces in China, which may affect the generalizability of the research.

Coping strategies of students for anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: a cross-sectional study.

Background: COVID-19 has severely affected university students everywhere in the world. Due to fear of infection, government and local authorities in China immediately closed academic institutions and tried to find survival techniques to cope with market turbulence. COVID-19 was present in China at the end of 2019. However, little attention has been paid by researchers to coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic, and few measures were taken to assess the coping strategies of university students, specifically following the closure of their institutions. To address this gap, this study attempted to discover the coping strategies of Chinese students during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Methods: We conducted an online survey using a semi-structured questionnaire with a simple random sampling technique and received 559 responses. The survey questions captured information about students' lives during the COVID-19 outbreak, actions to control anxiety, and what students care about during the pandemic. The associations between coping strategies used and levels of anxiety were tested using analysis of variance (ANOVA) procedures. SPSS Statistics v27 was used for statistical analysis in this study. Results: The university students reported that coping strategies and survival techniques were required due to high levels of anxiety and psychological pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the respondents reported the prompt closure of their academic institutions due to COVID-19. Psychological concerns, such as lack of sleep, emotional support, mental support and social appeal, were also reported. Conclusions: This is one of the very first studies on coping strategies for anxiety in China. The study reveals that university students employ a number of coping strategies in relation to COVID-19, but also suggests a need to strengthen such strategies in this population. However, the study was limited to a small number of provinces in China, which may affect the generalizability of the research.

How do undergraduates cope with anxiety resulting from active learning practices in introductory biology?

Active learning pedagogies decrease failure rates in undergraduate introductory biology courses, but these practices also cause anxiety for some students. Classroom anxiety can impact student learning and has been associated with decreased student retention in the major, but little is known about how students cope with anxiety caused by active learning practices. In this study, we investigated student coping strategies for various types of active learning (clickers, volunteering to answer a question, cold calling, and group work) that were used in 13 introductory Biology courses at a large public university in 2016–2017. A survey asked students to rate their anxiety regarding the four active learning practices and over half of the students explained the coping strategies they used to manage their active learning anxieties. Coping responses from 880 students were sorted into pre-defined categories of coping strategies: problem solving, information seeking, self-reliance, support seeking, accommodation, helplessness, escape, delegation, and isolation. We found that a different category of coping was dominant for each type of active learning. The dominant coping strategies for anxiety associated with clickers, cold calling, and group work were adaptive coping strategies of information seeking, self-reliance, and support-seeking, respectively. The dominant coping strategy for volunteering to answer a question was escape, which is a maladaptive strategy. This study provides a detailed exploration of student self-reported coping in response to active learning practices and suggests several areas that could be foci for future psychosocial interventions to bolster student regulation of their emotions in response to these new classroom practices.

"A Woman Is a Puppet." Women's Disempowerment and Prenatal Anxiety in Pakistan: A Qualitative Study of Sources, Mitigators, and Coping Strategies for Anxiety in Pregnancy.

Common mental disorders are highly prevalent among pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries, yet prenatal anxiety remains poorly understood, particularly in the sociocultural context of South Asia. Our study explored sources, mitigators, and coping strategies for anxiety among symptomatic pregnant women in Pakistan, particularly in relation to autonomy in decision-making and social support. We interviewed 19 pregnant married women aged 18–37 years recruited from 2017–2018 at a public hospital in Rawalpindi who screened positive for anxiety. Thematic analysis was based on both inductive emergent codes and deductive a priori constructs of pregnancy-related empowerment. Gender norms emerged as an important dimension of Pakistani women’s social environment in both constraining pregnancy-related agency and contributing to prenatal anxiety. Women’s avenues of self-advocacy were largely limited to indirect means such as appeals to the husband for intercession or return to her natal home. The levels of autonomy during pregnancy depended on the area of decision-making, and peer/family support was a critical protective factor and enabling resource for maternal mental health. Women’s disempowerment is a key contextual factor in the sociocultural experience of prenatal maternal anxiety in South Asia, and further examination of the intersections between empowerment and perinatal mental illness might help inform the development of more context-specific preventive approaches.

AN ANALYSIS OF COPING STRATEGY FOR NURSE CARE IN FACING PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS IN INTENSIVE SERVICE UNITS (UPI) AT PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL OF DR. SOEROJO MAGELANG

This study aims to get understanding on how the anxiety coping strategies of psychiatric nurses in handling patients who still feel anxious in the Intensive Service Unit (UPI). The method used in this study is a qualitative research by taking data based on the condition of natural objects. The study is conducted on psychiatric nurses in the Intensive Service Unit at Prof. Dr. Soerojo psychiatric Hospital in Magelang. The respondents of this study are taken from stratified purposive sampling that the writers take 2 female psychiatric nurses from female UPI and 3 male psychiatric nurses from Male UPI. Data are collected by observation and interview. The results show that the coping strategies that emerged from each subject differr one another, not all aspects of the coping strategy were used by the respondents. This means that by varying the coping strategies emerging from each respondent can be used as a reference as a study learned by individuals with the same conditions experienced by the respondents.

Fear and anxiety-coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic in lockdown

Fear and anxiety-coping strategies during COVID-19 pandemic in lockdown

First day of radiotherapy for women with breast cancer: predictors of anxiety.

Radiotherapy treatment may generate anxiety, especially on the first day of treatment. This study aimed to identify potential predictors of radiotherapy-related anxiety in women with breast cancer before treatment initiation, interms of treatment concerns and trait anxiety. This transversal study included 94 patients from one Radiation Oncology Department, who had beendiagnosed with primary breast cancerand who had been prescribed external radiotherapy for the first time. Patients completed a Treatment Concerns Questionnaire and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) before the first treatment session. Women identified radiation involved in the procedure and treatment efficacy as major concerns surrounding radiotherapy. No significant differences were found between patients with higher and lower state anxiety scores, or by age, level of education, cancer treatment protocolused, prior information given about treatment, or report of doubts before treatment initiation. In the final model, the combination of trait anxiety (49.1% of the total variance) with two treatment-related concerns, regarding radiation andthe duration of treatment (plus 10.8% of the total variance), significantly predicted treatment-related anxietyexperienced on the first day of treatment. Our findings highlight the need to identify women with moderate or higher levels of trait anxiety before radiotherapy initiation and to provide them with a more approach to personalized care, adjusted to their specific concerns and susceptibility to anxious reactions. Effective education sessions involving the discussion of specific treatment concerns, and anxiety coping strategies training should be developed and applied in initial interactions with breast cancer patients.

Multimodal prehabilitation improves functional capacity before and after colorectal surgery for cancer: a five-year research experience

Background: Multimodal prehabilitation is a preoperative conditioning intervention in form of exercise, nutritional assessment, whey protein supplementation, and anxiety-coping technique. Despite recent evidence suggesting that prehabilitation could improve functional capacity in patients undergoing colorectal surgery for cancer, all studies were characterized by a relatively small sample size. The aim of this study was to confirm what was previously found in three small population trials.Material and methods: Data of 185 participants enrolled in a pilot single group study and two randomized control trials conducted at the McGill University Health Center from 2010 to 2015 were reanalyzed. Subjects performing trimodal prehabilitation (exercise, nutrition, and coping strategies for anxiety) were compared to the patients who underwent the trimodal program only after surgery (rehabilitation/control group). Functional capacity was assessed with the six-minute walk test (6MWT), a measure of the distance walked over six minutes (6MWD). A significant functional improvement was defined as an increase in 6MWD from baseline by at least 19 m. Changes in 6MWD before surgery, at four and eight weeks were compared between groups.Results: Of the total study population, 113 subjects (61%) underwent prehabilitation. Changes in 6MWD in the prehabilitation group were higher compared to the rehabilitation/control group during the preoperative period {30.0 [standard deviation (SD) 46.7] m vs. −5.8 (SD 40.1) m, p < 0.001}, at four weeks [−11.2 (SD 72) m vs. −72.5 (SD 129) m, p < 0.01], and at eight weeks [17.0 (SD 84.0) m vs. −8.8 (SD 74.0) m, p = 0.047]. The proportion of subjects experiencing a significant preoperative improvement in physical fitness was higher in those patients who underwent prehabilitation [68 (60%) vs. 15 (21%), p < 0.001].Conclusion: In large secondary analysis, multimodal prehabilitation resulted in greater improvement in walking capacity throughout the whole perioperative period when compared to rehabilitation started after surgery.

Is There a Role for Cardiac Rehabilitation After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting? Treatment After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Remains Incomplete Without Rehabilitation.

Is There a Role for Cardiac Rehabilitation After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting? Treatment After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Remains Incomplete Without Rehabilitation.

Estrategias de afrontamiento y malestar emocional en mujeres con resultados dudosos de su mamografía de cribado

Objetive : The aims of this research are to study the coping strategies in women with doubtful results after mammography screening for breast cancer who require repeat testing at 6 months, and analyse the predictive value of coping strategies for anxiety and depression at both times of measurement. Methodology : One hundred and five women (mean age=59.9 anos, Sx=6.02) with BI-RADS 3 findings in a mammography screening were evaluated in coping (COPE), anxiety and depression (HADS), and 72 of these women were assessed at 6 months after a follow-up mammogram. Conclusions : Coping strategies most used were the active and problem-focused, and the avoidant strategies were the least used. In the second measurement time decreased the use of active coping (p=0.000), planning (p=0.002), positive reinterpretation and growth (p=0.03) and refrain coping (p=0.029). Anxiety and depression were normal in both assessments. Coping strategies problem-focused are more beneficial than emotion-focused, although the correlations between coping and anxiety/depression are modest. Screening mammography does not cause distress and requires few coping resources for participants. Campaigns for breast cancer screening should emphasize these results.

Self-efficacy, anxiety and anxiety coping strategies in an EFL speaking class

Self-efficacy, anxiety and anxiety coping strategies in an EFL speaking class

A Study via Interviews of the Chinese Bouyei College Learners’ EFL Classroom Anxiety Coping Strategies

The present study aims to investigate EFL classroom anxiety coping strategies employed by the Chinese Bouyei college students through semi-structured individual interviews of 25 Chinese Bouyei college students from five colleges located in the southern and southwestern areas of Guizhou Province, China. The findings demonstrate five categories of the participants’ reported EFL classroom anxiety coping strategies, i.e., preparation, help/peer seeking, relaxation, resignation, and positive thinking, which were mostly supportive to the results of the rotated component matrix of factor analysis for the FLCACSQ conducted in the researchers’ previous study. In addition, implications were made on the research findings.