Effectiveness of stress management program on perception of stress among nursing students

Abstract

An experimental study among 114 B.Sc (Nursing) students was performed to identify the prevalence of perception of stress, the effectiveness of stress management program in decreasing the stress levels during post-test. It was observed that in Experimental group, during pre-test, the perceived stress for majority of students 89.2% (50) are having moderate stress, followed by mild stress 7.14% (4) and severe stress 3.57% (2).After Stress management program, during post-test scores, the moderate stress has been decreased and there was increase in mild stress percentage among majority of students. That is majority of students 50% (28) are under mild stress and 48.2% (27) are under moderate stress and 1.78% (1) are under severe stress. In Control group, there is no considerable change in stress levels during pre-test and post-test scores. In Experimental group, during pre-test, the mean and SD are 18.679 ± 4.11. During post-test, the mean and SD are 16.02 ± 5.29  showing decrease in post-test mean which showed statistical significance between pre-test and post-test score (p=0.000),  at 0.05 significance level(p<0.05). To find out the effectiveness of stress management program, t-test for independent means for post-test scores between Experimental and Control groups was done. The means and SD of experimental group are 16.02 ± 5.297 and of Control group is 17.93 ± 3.89. There is significant difference in post-test means. The calculated p-value (0.01) is significant at 0.05 significant level (p<0.05).