Chipps Jennifer, Penelope Martin, Jeffrey Hoffman, Margaret Williams, Olivia Baloyi, Fiona Walters, Jarvis Mary Ann
School of Nursing, Belville Campus, University of the Western Cape, 14 Blanckenberg Road, Belville, Cape Town, South Africa.
School of Nursing and Public Health, Howard College, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 238 Mazizi Kunene Road, Glenwood, Durban, South Africa.
Int J Afr Nurs Sci. 2022;17:100455. doi: 10.1016/j.ijans.2022.100455. Epub 2022 Jul 12.
The aim of this study was to evaluate a digital programme aimed to address COVID-19 related anxiety of final year undergraduate nursing students on returning to the clinical practice during the pandemic in South Africa.
In South Africa, concern about the physical and psychological safety of nursing students resulted in the planning of a psychological first aid program to facilitate nursing students return to clinical practice.
A survey was conducted in September 2020 following the August 2020 return of final year nursing students to clinical facilities.
All final year nursing students were invited to participate in the study ( = 196). An online survey was circulated via WhatsApp asking respondents to rate their anxiety and fear of COVID-19 before and after return to practice following an intervention (e. Related pair analysis was done on the main outcome measures of anxiety, COVID-19 fears and concerns using Related Samples Wilcoxon Signed Rank tests.
After the programme, the respondents reported a significant reduction in anxiety ( = 2.92, =.004) and COVID fear (0.3.1, =.001), specifically related to infecting family, being exposed to COVID-19 at work, propagating infection at work and lacking access to COVID-19 information and communication.
The implementation of a dedicated digital programme, underpinned by a sound theory base of psychological first aid, may have decreased anxiety and fear in nursing students during clinical practice in the pandemic.Contribution: The study contributes to evidence on psychological first aid support of nursing students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
本研究旨在评估一项数字计划，该计划旨在解决南非本科护理专业最后一年学生在疫情期间重返临床实习时与新冠肺炎相关的焦虑问题。
在南非，对护理专业学生身体和心理安全的担忧促使制定了一项心理急救计划，以帮助护理专业学生重返临床实习。
在2020年8月本科护理专业最后一年学生返回临床设施后，于2020年9月进行了一项调查。
邀请所有本科护理专业最后一年学生参与研究（n = 196）。通过WhatsApp发放在线调查问卷，要求受访者对干预后（即重返实习前后）他们对新冠肺炎的焦虑和恐惧程度进行评分。使用相关样本Wilcoxon符号秩检验对焦虑、对新冠肺炎的恐惧和担忧等主要结局指标进行相关配对分析。
该计划实施后，受访者报告焦虑（Z = 2.92，p = 0.004）和对新冠肺炎的恐惧（Z = 3.1，p = 0.001）显著降低，特别是与感染家人、在工作中接触新冠肺炎、在工作中传播感染以及缺乏新冠肺炎信息和沟通渠道等方面相关的焦虑和恐惧。
在心理急救的坚实理论基础支持下实施专门的数字计划，可能降低了疫情期间护理专业学生在临床实习时的焦虑和恐惧。贡献：该研究为新冠肺炎疫情期间护理专业学生心理急救支持的证据提供了补充。
