An examination of anxiety levels of nursing students caring for patients in terminal period

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: grade in this direction. METHODS: A 40-item "State and Trait Anxiety Scale" was used together with the questionnaire on "Determining the Level of Anxiety Levels of Nursing Students Caring for the Patient at the Terminal Period" for determining the data. RESULTS: state anxiety scale score was 41.85 ± 4.83, trait anxiety scale averages were 48.24 ± 5.30. CONCLUSION: grade students related to ill patient care in terms of high level of state and trait anxiety during communication and patient care. The state and trait anxiety scores of the students in both grades were found to be higher than the average scores of the scale's previous applications.