Perceived Anxiety and Self-Confidence among Undergraduate Nursing Students During Clinical Practice in Selected Colleges Providing Nursing Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2023.
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2023
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Addis Ababa University
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Background:.Anxiety is described as a sensation of impending dread and a connection ofemotions in circumstances that cause anxiety because a bad thing could happen, while also takinginto account one's perception of one's abilities. Self-confidence is the belief and feeling ofconfidence in one's abilities and capabilities to plan and carry out the courses of action necessaryto achieve goals.
Objective: To assess perceived anxiety and self-confidence among undergraduate nursingstudents during clinical practice in selected colleges providing nursing studies in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia 2023.
Methods: A institutional-based cross-sectional study design was employed to assess perecivedanxiety and self-confidence among undergraduate nursing students during clinical practice. 293 students were enrolled. Six nursing colleges were selected by simple random sampling technique.The students were chosen by a simple random sampling method from each college proportionally.Data was collected using a self-administered semi-structured questionnaire through NASC-CDM.It was entered into Epidata 4.6 and then exported to SPSS version 26.0 for final analysis. Bivariateanalysis at a P-value of 0.25 and multivariate analysis at a P-value of 0.05 was applied.
Result: A total of 275 students participated in this study. The proportion of perceived good self-confidence of nursing students during clinical practice was 49.1% and for perceived anxiety was46.9%. The sex of the students, the thinking of clinical instructors were prepared well duringclinical attachments, think of the shortage of staff in the hospital affect clinical learning, and theperceived self-confidence of nursing students were significant predictors of the perceived anxietyof the students. The students who had poor perceived self-confidence were 5 times more likely tobe more anxious than those having good perceived self-confidence
Conclusion and recommendation:. This research strongly recommends that students should bemotivated and evaluated regularly for anxiety and self-confidence during clinical practice.
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Perceived anxiety, Perceived self-confidence, Nursing students, Clinical practice, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.