Running head: MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES 1

Coping-up with mental health issues during online class of nursing students in one private

University in manila.

EVARSITO, JOHN CHRISTIAN C.

MESAJON, RHENZO

COLLEGE OF ALLIED HEALTH BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING, NATIONAL

UNIVERSITY

NUR 203, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

551 M.F.JHOCSON STREET, SAMPALOC, MANILA, METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES

JANUARY 13, 2021

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Abstract

This research proposal is concerned about mental health of a nursing students in

National University. As the percentage of the nursing students studying online has increased,

including managing the mental health during COVID-19, this study aims to identify possible

mental health issues and helping nursing students connect with needed resources like identifying

possible warning signs into three variety like atypical behavior, unusual behavior and poor

academic performance. As a result, it could save life of a student that is depressed and to avoid

suicidal attempts.

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Back ground of the study

Managing mental health issues during online class of a nursing student anxiety is

profoundly common among undergrads. The main three worries among

understudies are scholastic execution, strain to succeed, and post-graduation

plans. Nursing schooling has reliably been related with uneasiness among

understudies. Weighty course stacks, tough assessments, proceeded with strain to

achieve a high evaluation point normal, complex relational connections,

difficulties of the clinical climate, really focusing on ongoing and in critical

condition patients bring about more prominent uneasiness among nursing

understudies than among understudies from any of the other medical services

disciplines. Moreover, it has been discovered that the clinical preparing occurring

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during nursing training is more unpleasant than the hypothetical view point

Nervousness negatively affects the nature of understudies' life, their schooling and

clinical practice and may cause drop out from the nursing program Savitsky,

Findling, Ereli, Hendel, B. Y. A. T. (2020, June 2). Anxiety and coping strategies

among nursing students during the covid-19 pandemic. PubMed Central (PMC).

During an epidemic/pandemic state, nursing students are

exposed to additional stressful factors, such as fear of being infected. A study

conducted among nursing students during the SARS outbreak (2003) in Hong-

Kong showed that nursing students perceived themselves to be at higher risk of

infection. Similarly, in a study from Saudi-Arabia during the MERS outbreak

(2016), healthcare students expressed their reluctance to work in healthcare

facilities with inadequate MERS infection control isolation policies. Higher stress

level during the MERS outbreak in South Korea was found to be negatively

associated with intention to provide care for patients with a newly emerging

infectious disease in the future. Coping with anxiety and stress is extremely

important regarding the influence anxiety and stress will have on health. During

the SARS outbreak in 2003 in Taiwan, nurses involved with the care of SARS

patients suffered from a high incidence of depression (39%), insomnia (37%), and

post-traumatic stress (33%), while a positive attitude toward taking care of

patients with SARS was a protective factor against acute stress. The latest

research studying coping strategies of nurses and nursing students during the

covid-19 pandemic in China has shown that nurses used problem-focused coping

methods more than nursing college students who choose immature or negative

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coping strategies. Beiter, Nash, McCrady and Rhoades, R. R. M. D. (2015,

March) The prevalence and correlates of depression, anxiety, and stress in a

sample of college students. ScienceDirect.

2. OBJECTIVE

This research seeks to analyze the impact of mental health issues towards nursing

students taking online classes. This study sought to answer the following questions:

1. What type of mental health issues they experienced during the online class setting?

2. What type of mental health issues they experienced during the online class setting?

3. How does it affect the student’s productivity and the quality of work they produce?

4. What are the activities or measures they have done to overcome their situation?

3. SCOPE AND LIMITATION

 This study was conducted to determine the effect of online classes to those nursing

students who has mental health issues. The scope of this study is limited only to those

students with online class that is taking the nursing course, and the respondents or

participants for this study will only be limited to National University students.