Academic Stress And Coping Behaviour Among Under Graduate Nursing Students In A Nursing College Of Lalitpur, Nepal

Background: Many students have stressed every day. Stress may be related to day-to-day life or their class related activities or academic. Because of the stress, they may have suffered from physical or psychological problems. If the factors associated stress are not identified on time, they may have severe problem like anxiety and depression and other mental health problems even may commit to suicide. Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional research design was used to assess academic stress and coping behaviour among under graduate students. A probability simple random sampling technique was used to select 299 respondents. Data were collected by using self-administer questionnaire, the standard tool academic stress inventory and stress coping style inventory prepared by Lin and Chen (2009,2010). Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to analyze data. Results: The result of the study shows that majority of students (65.6%) had moderate level stress, most of students (94.3%) had average level coping behaviour and academic stress is statistically significant with age, academic year and qualification. The overall stress and coping score of the respondents was 93.2 (±21.8), and 91.3 (±7.7) respectively. Conclusion: The majority of respondents experience moderate levels of academic stress, while most respondents demonstrate average coping behaviors, there is evident scope for enhancing their coping strategies.