Assessing Stress Endured by Students Throughout Their Nursing Education at Alriyada Collage for Health Sciences Using AMOS

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1 Associate Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Nursing Department, Alriyada College for Health Sciences Jeddah. Saudi Arabia.

2 Alriyada College for Health Sciences Jeddah. Saudi Arabia

10.21608/ejhc.2025.432140

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Stress is a universal problem among nursing students it generally arises from new clinical experiences that students endure, as well as the challenging academic workload offered concurrently with clinical and personal stressors the students face in their everyday lives. Objective: This study was carried out to assess stress endured by students throughout their nursing education at Alriyada College for Health Sciences Methodology: The study was conducted in a descriptive cross-sectional design carried out with 233 nursing students in Alriyada College for Health Sciences. In the data collection, 'Stress in Nurse Education Questionnaires (SINE)' was used. For the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics, Student t test, One-way ANOVA, and Pearson correlation were used. The significance level was set at p < 0.05 for all statistical tests. The correlation and regression between each question of the Academic and practice stress questionnaire and latent predicate Academic and practical stress identified by the AMOS program.  Results: The majority of students (89.2%) liked the profession while studying 84.3% liked clinical practice whereas more than three-quarters of them 78.9 % agreed that the nursing education curriculum is heavy. It was found that more than half of students suffer from moderate levels of stress ( 68%) , academic stress represents  69.5% and practical stress percentage was 70%. Most of the studied students showed a significant relation between academic and practical stress with age and educational level (0.024*, 0.014*) (0.049*,0.018*) respectively and there is an appositive strong correlation between academic stress and practical stress (pearson correlation 0.750**) strong correlation. It was also, found that inadequate support from tutors has an appositive strong correlation with academic stress r=.72 B=1.38. Feeling inadequately prepared to help with the emotional needs of a patient and his family has appositive strong correlation with practical stress (r=.72 B=1.38). Conclusions: As a result of this study, it was determined that the stress experienced by the students during their nursing education was moderate level.

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