Avaliação da ansiedade entre os acadêmicos de enfermagem: um estudo sobre o mal do século.

Abstract

Anxiety can be considered a complex emotional experience that can bring damage, depending on their proportion, and, from the moment that harms our psychic and somatic functioning, can become pathological, especially among the most common psychiatric disorders everyday. In this perspective, the present study aimed to assess the level of anxiety in undergraduate nursing students. This is a study of quantitative approach, exploratory typology and cross-sectional held at the Federal University of Campina Grande, Campus Cuité - Paraíba, with the academic course of Bachelor of Nursing from July. Data were collected through the application of Trait Anxiety Inventory-State, STAI, translated and adapted for Brazil by Biaggio (1979), as well as other issues with subjective questionnaire was applied. 190 students of the course were interviewed (52.2%), and 44 male students (23.2%) and 146 females (76.8%). Looking at the data, it can be seen that anxiety is identified as mild, moderate, and severe levels. The classes that showed higher levels of anxiety were the graduating classes mainly moderate anxiety. The students cited as anxiogenic situations, evidence, seminars and public speaking. As for symptoms, more gifts were increased sweating, restlessness, and tachycardia. And as to the forms of strategies to minimize anxiety, listening to music, stands out for being the most cited. Thus, it is expected that this study will contribute significantly to a better understanding of anxiety by student population, including primarily the teachers and administrators of the university to invest in strategies of attention and care for the student clientele.