Mental Health Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Ha'il, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia.
College of Nursing, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines.
Nurs Forum. 2022 Mar;57(2):267-276. doi: 10.1111/nuf.12675. Epub 2021 Nov 22.
Over the past year, healthcare workers constantly report their COVID-19 anxiety. However, this concept remained understudied among nursing students (NSs).
This study investigated the difference between NSs' three types of anxiety and their profile variables during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This study used a cross-sectional, descriptive-correlational design. Three instruments were used: COVID-19 anxiety scale (CAS), COVID-19 anxiety syndrome scale (COVID-19ASS), and short health anxiety inventory (SHAI) to collect data from 484 Saudi NSs. We applied the Mann-Whitney U test and linear regression to analyze the data.
Across the three instruments; CAS, Item 1 "I feel bad when thinking about COVID-19"; COVID-19ASS, Item 11 "I have imagined what could happen to my family members if they contracted COVID-19"; and SHAI, Item 17 "A serious illness could ruin many aspects of my life" yielded the highest means. COVID-19ASS showed a significant difference for the profiles "known positive" (p = 0.05) and "action taken after with testing" (p = 0.05). NS, who knew someone with COVID-19, was the only predictor of CAS.
Our study concludes NSs experience anxiety symptoms. Anxiety is specific to COVID-19 or a set of similar anxiety symptoms. Further research is needed to explore the anxiety state of NSs during the pandemic.
在过去的一年中，医护人员不断报告他们的 COVID-19 焦虑。然而，护理学生（NS）对这一概念的研究仍不够充分。
本研究调查了 COVID-19 大流行期间 NS 三种焦虑类型的差异及其特征变量。
本研究采用横断面、描述性相关设计。使用了三种工具：COVID-19 焦虑量表（CAS）、COVID-19 焦虑综合征量表（COVID-19ASS）和简短健康焦虑量表（SHAI），从 484 名沙特 NS 中收集数据。我们应用了 Mann-Whitney U 检验和线性回归来分析数据。
在三个工具中；CAS 中的第 1 项“当我想到 COVID-19 时，我感觉很不好”；COVID-19ASS 中的第 11 项“我想象过如果我的家人感染了 COVID-19，他们会发生什么”；以及 SHAI 中的第 17 项“一场重病可能会毁掉我生活的许多方面”都产生了最高的平均值。COVID-19ASS 在“已知阳性”（p=0.05）和“测试后采取行动”（p=0.05）方面的特征有显著差异。知道有人感染 COVID-19 的 NS 是 CAS 的唯一预测因子。
我们的研究得出结论，NS 经历焦虑症状。焦虑是特定于 COVID-19 或一组类似的焦虑症状。需要进一步研究来探索 NS 在大流行期间的焦虑状态。
