Therapy Response for Nursing Students
Annotated bibliography
Augner, C. (2015). Depressive symptoms and perceived chronic stress predict test anxiety in nursing students. Central European Journal of Nursing and Midwifery, 6(3), 291-297.
http://periodika.osu.cz/cejnm/dok/2015-03/18-augner.pdf
This article is a study of whether depressive symptoms and the perceived chronic stress are the symptoms of anxiety. It used a regressive analysis that revealed that emotional instability and stress are the best predictors of test anxiety. As discussed in the article, past adverse outcomes of performance in academics have an immense impact to test tension through the symptoms of depressions and perceived stress. Augner informs us that there is a very close relationship between depressive symptoms, perceived chronic stress, and test anxiety. This article is critical because it is a source of training methods of therapy for addressing t6he symptoms of depression.
Ratanasiripong, P., Park, J. F., Ratanasiripong, N., & Kathalae, D. (2015). Stress and anxiety management in nursing students: Biofeedback and mindfulness meditation. Journal of Nursing Education, 54(9), 520-524.
This article by Ratanasiripong et al. studies the effectiveness of intervention programs that have been developed to reduce the level of anxiety and perceived stress among the nursing students during their clinical training. Ratanasiripong et al. claim that the biofeedback program is the best for the reduction of anxiety and stress management as compared to mindful meditation. Nursing students should adopt this program to facilitate therapeutic communication. This article provides enough data for nursing students on therapy response; hence, it is essential for my research.
Rathnayake, S., & Ekanayaka, J. (2016). Depression, anxiety, and stress among undergraduate nursing students in a public university in Sri Lanka. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 9(3), 1020-1032.
http://www.internationaljournalofcaringsciences.org/docs/31_rathnayaky_originial_9_3.p df
Rathnayake& Ekanayaka wrote this article intending to report how stress and anxiety affect college students. The authors postulate that nursing students meet a lot of stressors during their student’s life, and this affects how they give therapy response to other patients, especially those suffering from depression. Having been written after extensive research through interviewing college students, the article reports that physical wellbeing of many students is affected by factors such as stress, anxiety, and depression and therefore these factors are affecting their performance, especially in the clinical setting. The good news is, nursing students can adopt programs to enable them to avoid this condition. The article contains relevant information for my research.
Song, Y., & Lindquist, R. (2015). Effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on depression, anxiety, stress, and mindfulness in Korean nursing students. Nurse education today, 35(1), 86-90.
Song & Lindquist explains the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) in the decrease in depression, anxiety, and stress not only to college students but also to the rest of the population. The authors claim that depression and anxiety decrease patient care effectiveness in college students. The various programs of MBSR that have been discussed in this article demonstrate that they have a profound benefit to the college students through the body-mind connection. One good thing we learn from the report is that mindfulness thinking is an internal resource that nursing students can personally develop. Song & Lindquist adds that mindfulness can be grown virtually and practiced anywhere. Hence nursing students should develop this positive psychology. This article is relevant because it discusses the effectiveness of MBSR programs in the reduction of stress and depression.
Zhang, Y., Peters, A., & Chen, G. (2018). Perceived stress mediates the associations between sleep quality and symptoms of anxiety and depression among college nursing students. International journal of nursing education scholarship,15(1).
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijnes.2018.15.issue-1/ijnes-2017-0020/ijnes-2017- 0020.xml
This article by Zhang et al. offers the association between the symptoms of anxiety and depression and sleep quality among nursing student. The author states that poor sleep is a symptom of depression among many people and offers a suggestion that sleep quality can help correct this problem. Since poor sleep contributes to mental illness among college students, it also affects the therapeutic communication among these students. The article is important because it offers effective coping strategies that college students can use to enhance their mental health.