Open AccessCoping with Fears of Covid-19 Pandemic Among Nursing Students During Clinical Practice: Malawi’s Perspective
Author(s) -
Masumbuko Baluwa,
Alice Konyani,
Mep Chipeta,
Getrude Munthali,
Lucky Mhango,
Etta Chimbe,
Florence Lungu,
Ferestas Mpasa
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
advances in medical education and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-7258
DOI - 10.2147/amep.s337783
Subject(s) - pandemic , coping (psychology) , covid-19 , focus group , perspective (graphical) , psychology , clinical practice , nursing , qualitative research , medicine , clinical psychology , sociology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , social science , artificial intelligence , anthropology , computer science
Fears of the Covid-19 pandemic have brought additional psychological pressure among nursing students. Nursing students at Mzuzu University in Malawi resumed clinical practice amidst the first wave of the pandemic and completed their rotation from September to December 2020. However, it was not known how they were coping with fears of the Covid-19 pandemic during clinical practice and this had set the impetus for conducting this study.