Instrument For Assessment Of Stress Research Articles

Estresse e resiliência em discentes de enfermagem de duas universidades públicas paulistas

Objetivo: verificar a relação entre estresse e resiliência em discentes de enfermagem de duas universidades públicas do Estado de São Paulo. Método: trata-se de um estudo transversal realizado em março de 2016 junto a 117 discentes de enfermagem. Aplicaram-se um Formulário para caracterização acadêmica e demográfica, o Instrumento para Avaliação do Estresse em Discentes de Enfermagem e a Escala de Resiliência de Wagnilde Young. Analisaram-se os dados no Statistical Package for Social Sciences, versão 10.0. Resultados: observou-se predomínio de discentes com médio nível de estresse. O gerenciamento do tempo e as atividades teóricas representaram alto nível de estresse para 23,9% e 20,5% da população. 11,1% apresentaram muito alto estresse relacionado ao Ambiente. Os níveis de resiliência foram reduzidos (51%). Não houve correlação significativa entre estresse e resiliência. Conclusão: o ambiente de formação em enfermagem apresenta potencial para o adoecimento dos discentes, embora parte deles já apresente resiliência moderada.

Health status, resilience and quality of life of first and fourth year nursing students

Objective: To compare the health status (stress, depressive symptoms and sleep quality), the resilience and quality of life in first and fourth year nursing students.Methods: This is a cross-sectional research conducted in 2016 with 86 students enrolled in first and fourth years of the nursing degree. We applied the instrument for Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index, Wagnild and Young’s Resilience Scale; and the WHOQOL-BREF. ANOVA (Test F) was applied for data analysis.Results and conclusions: A total of 49 first-year and 37 fourth-year students were sampled for this study. Fourth- year nursing students showed higher levels of stress, lower intensity of depressive symptoms and higher quality of life and resilience levels. The poor sleep quality was prevalent in both groups. Conclusion: although the nursing education potentially contributes for students’ sickness, the experiences lived in this period may strength the resilience skills.Conclusions: Video indexing and retrieval are accomplished by using hashing and $k$-d tree methods, while visual signatures containing color, shape and texture information are estimated for the key-frames, by using image and frequency domain techniques. Experimental results with the dataset of a multimedia information system especially developed for managing television broadcast archives demonstrate that our approach works efficiently, retrieving videos in 0.16 seconds on average and achieving recall, precision and F1 measure values, as high as 0.76, 0.97 and 0.86 respectively.

Health alterations in nursing students after a year from admission to the undergraduate course.

To identify health alterations in nursing students after a year from admission to a nursing undergraduate course. A longitudinal prospective study with a quantitative approach was carried out in 2016 with first-year nursing students from two universities in the state of São Paulo. The following instruments were applied at the beginning and the end of the first school year: an instrument for Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. The ANOVA test for mixed models was used for analysis. The sample was made up of 117 students in March and 100 students in December. A significant increase in stress in all dimensions of the instrument, a reduction in the duration and subjective quality of sleep, and an increase in general stress and depressive symptoms were observed. The nursing academic environment presents the potential for students to become ill. Institutions should rethink their curricular elements, promote resilience, and create spaces to promote students' health.

Short version of the "instrument for assessment of stress in nursing students" in the Brazilian reality.

ABSTRACTGoal:validate a short version of the Instrument for assessment of stress in nursing students in the Brazilian reality. Method:Methodological study conducted with 1047 nursing students from five Brazilian institutions, who answered the 30 items initially distributed in eight domains. Data were analyzed in the R Statistical Package and in the latent variable analysis, using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, Cronbach’s alpha and item-total correlation. Results:The short version of the instrument had 19 items distributed into four domains: Environment, Professional Training, Theoretical Activities and Performance of Practical Activities. The confirmatory analysis showed absolute and parsimony fit to the proposed model with satisfactory residual levels. Alpha values ​​per factor ranged from 0.736 (Environment) to 0.842 (Performance of Practical Activities). Conclusion:The short version of the instrument has construct validity and reliability for application to Brazilian nursing undergraduates at any stage of the course.

Biosocial-academic profile and stress in first- and fourth-year nursing students.

To compare the biosocial and academic profile and stress levels between first- and last-year nursing students from a public university in Sao Paulo. This is an analytic and quantitative study. A biosocial and academic form and the instrument for Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students by Costa and Polak were applied to 83 students between February and March 2016. Insufficient income and extracurricular activities contribute to higher levels of stress in both groups of students assessed. Fourth-year students showed higher levels of general stress, particularly generated by the factors: performance of practical activities, professional communication, environment and professional training. Time management produces higher stress in first-year students. Fewbiosocial and academic features equally contribute for the stress levels in first- and last-year nursing students, but those in last-year present higher stress than students who are starting the course.

The stress profile in China: A pilot study in patients with psychological disorders

AbstractThe stress Profile was translated into Chinese and used as an instrument for assessment of stress in 20 Chinese patients and 28 normal subjects. The Chinese profile was then validated for reliability and also against the Hamilton anxiety and depression rating scales (HRSA and HRSD). Good correlations were recorded for the total and sub scores of the Stress Profile in test–retest and interrater reliabilities and there was a significant correlation with the HRSD, but not quite significant with the HRSA. However, after treatment, the correlations became significant with both Hamilton scales.