TY - JOUR AU - Singh, Shikhar AU - Singh, Shivender Kumar AU - Manar, Manish AU - Kar, Sujita AU - Gupta, Abhishek AU - Bajpai, Prasant AU - Sharma, Neha PY - 2018/09/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Epidemiology of stress among Nursing Undergraduate Students JF - Indian Journal of Community Health JA - Indian J Community Health VL - 30 IS - 3 SE - Original Article DO - 10.47203/IJCH.2018.v30i03.009 UR - https://iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/875 SP - 233 - 238 AB - <p><strong>Background:</strong> Stress is a double-edged sword that can either invigorate or decrease the student’s performance. Longer the duration of stress poorer the performance. Nursing students may develop feeling of inadequacy regarding the activities required during professional education which may lead to stress <strong>Aims &amp; Objectives</strong>: To study the level of stress among undergraduate nursing students of Lucknow city and to determine the risk factors causing stress. <strong>Material &amp; Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional study was conducted among 380 B.Sc. (Nursing) Students enrolled in government and private colleges of Lucknow city using semi-structured questionnaire and DASS 42 scale <strong>Results</strong>: 60 percent and 62 percent of total nursing student from government college and private nursing respectively were stressed. There was no statistical difference (p= 0.17) between median stress score of two colleges. Predictor for stress was gender (odds ratio =3.41) <strong>Conclusion</strong>: The study showed high level of stress among the nursing students from government college and private college. Risk factors which were responsible for stress among students were gender, sharing of room, educational expenses, academic performance, mobile phone and harassment in college.</p> ER -