The Factors Related to the Level of Anxiety in the Regular Students of Nursing Science Program when Facing the First Clinical Practice

      
Created by: Dody Setyawan

     Anxiety is a subjective experience marked by restlessness or worry (worry, apprehensive expectation, anticitipatory anxiety) and vigilance. This phenomenon can be seen when someone is claimed to receive or do new things that have not been done before as the one experienced by regular students when facing the first clinical practice. Many factors affect the level of individual anxiety involving external factors such as potential stressor (unreadiness and fear), social cultural and environment and internal factors such as maturity, education, physical condition, personality type, age and gender. The goal of this research was to analyze the correlation between each of the factors related to the level of anxiety including age, personality type, unreadiness and fear towards the level of anxiety of regular students when facing the first clinical practice.

     The research was a quantitative research using correlational descriptive method with cross sectional approach using questionnaires as the research instrument. The population of this research were all the regular students of 2007 in health institution in which the samples were taken by purposive sampling method to 40 respondents in accordance with the inclution and exclution criteria defined by the researcher.

       The research result with SAI measurement using the Spearman test found p value ≤ 0.05 for the variable of age (p=0.038), using the Chi Square test was of p value < 0.05 for variable of personality type (p=0.009), unreadiness (p=0.013) and fear (p=0.019). Meanwhile, the measurement of TAI with Spearman test found p value > 0.05 for the variable of age (p=0.104) and with Chi Square test of p value > 0.05 for the unreadiness variable (p=0.074), p value < 0.05 for the personality type (p=0.019) and fear (p=0.020).

       The research concluded that based on the SAI measurement, there was a correlation between the level of students’ anxiety with the factors of age, personality type, unreadiness and students’ fear. Based on the TAI measurement, it was showed that there was no correlation between the level of students’ anxiety with the factors of age and students’ unreadiness. Further, there was correlation between the level of students’ anxiety with the factors of personality type and fear.

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