Open AccessAnxiety among Nursing Students towards Clinical Placement during COVID-19 in a Tertiary Hospital of Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
Author(s) -
Bidhya Banstola,
a Shakya,
Pushpa Prasad Sharma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of nepal medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.176
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1815-672X
pISSN - 0028-2715
DOI - 10.31729/jnma.6132
Subject(s) - anxiety , medicine , beck anxiety inventory , descriptive statistics , pandemic , coping (psychology) , cross sectional study , descriptive research , nursing , clinical psychology , psychiatry , family medicine , covid-19 , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , beck depression inventory , pathology , statistics , mathematics
The world is facing the pandemic of COVID-19 caused by the corona virus since December 2019 and has caused millions of death throughout the world. Exposure of nursing students in clinical placement during pandemic is fearful and stressful with high risk of infection which can cause anxiety and different levels of psychological crisis to individuals. The main objective of the study is to find out the prevalence of anxiety among nursing students during clinical placement in the pandemic of COVID-19.