Impact of Guided Meditation Techniques as a Method for Alleviating Stress Among Nursing Students in Selected Nursing College, Bangalore

Background: During their academic period as nursing candidates are going through challenging curriculum, it’s often notable that the maximum of nursing scholar is confronting intense level of anxiety because of the immense academic and clinical requirements. So, easy stress relieve method is essential to get rid from student’s stress in a mutilate way for leading academic conclusion. Objective: To assess the stress level among nursing students in selected college at Bangalore. To evaluate the impact of guided meditation techniques on alleviating stress among nursing candidates. Methods: A quasi-experimental research design was adopted in this investigation. Selected sample size was 100 nursing student, simple random method was used in sample selection, a 30-minute guided meditation session was proved to the sample group. Student’s anxiety levels were estimated by using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) before and after the intercession. Descriptive statistics were used to analyzed the accumulated data. Results: Pre-test outcome is showing mild stress among 17% students, moderate stress among 31% students and 52% were having high level of stress. Post-test consequences reveal that 65% student was having mild stress, 19% was having moderate stress and only 16% was found high level of stress. Conclusion: Guided meditation techniques were one of the flourishing practices to remedy of stress among nursing students. Administration of these types of stress reduction methods is very productive in scholastic settings to upgrade scholars’ well-being and to calibrating in new positive ambience. Keywords: Perceived Stress Scale, Stress, Guided Imagery Techniques etc.