Volume 29, Issue 4, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.841
THE EFFECT OF ACUTE STRESS RESPONSE ON PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND SELF-EFFICACY OF NURSING STUDENTS IN CHINA DURING COVID-19 OUTBREAK：A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
Abstract
Background: During the rapidly evolving situation of COVID-19, the external environment and job stress may influence the professional identity and self-efficacy of nursing students. An assessment of professional identity, self-efficacy, and acute stress reponse of nursing students during the coronavirus outbreak, as well as the effect of acute stress response on them is necessary and badly needed.
Objective: To evaluate the nursing students’ professional identity, self-efficacy, and acute stress response during the COVID-19 outbreak, and to investigate the effect of acute stress response on nursing students’ professional identity and self-efficacy.
Design, settings, and participants: Assessment of professional identity, self-efficacy and acute stress response were designed for this cross-sectional study. A total of 2024 nursing students from Shanxi Medical University completed the questionnaire used in this study.
Methods: The online questionnaire, including personal characteristics, professional identity questionnaire of nursing students (PIQNS), generalized self-efficacy scale (GSES) and Stanford acute stress response scale questionnaire (SASRQ), was utilized for the measurement.
Results: The total score of and sub-scales’ score of professional identity of nursing students significantly increased after the COVID-19 outbreak (p<0.001). Additionally, self-efficacy had a positive effect on professional identity (p<0.001) while acute stress response had a negative effect on professional identity and self-efficacy, respectively (p<0.001).
Conclusion: The results of this study provide insights into the effect of acute stress response on professional identity and self-efficacy of nursing students during COVID-19 outbreak in China. Nursing education must be oriented to help strength the professional identity of nursing students from this emergence
Keywords
professional identity, self-efficacy, acute stress response, Covid-19 outbreak