گلبرگ رحمانی

The respiratory disease Covid-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China and spread as a pandemic. The mental vulnerability of nursing students to the stress caused by professional challenges, especially during the corona virus pandemic, was one of the problems that had to be addressed. The purpose of this study is to investigate depression, anxiety and stress in nursing students of Tehran Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences during the corona virus pandemic in 2021.

This research is a cross-sectional descriptive study that was conducted in the secend half of 2021 in the nursing faculty of Tehran Islamic Azad University of Medical Sciences among 108 nursing students. The data collection tool includes two parts of the demographic characteristic's questionnaire as well as the DASS-21 depression, anxiety and stress scale, which was provided to the students as an online questionnaire. For data analysis, SPSS software version 16 was used for descriptive statistics and chi-square test, and a significance level of less than 0.05 was considered.

Based on DASS-21, the average stress intensity of the participants was 8.40 ± 0.5, the average depression intensity of the participants was 6.41 ± 0.51, and the average anxiety intensity of the participants was 5.48 ± 0.41. There was no significant relationship between the background variables of age, gender, marriage and hospital employment with the level of depression, anxiety and stress of the students participating in the research.

According to the obtained results, the stress subscale had the highest intensity and the anxiety subscale had the lowest intensity among the participants. It seems that nationwide vaccination against covid-19 disease and paying attention to training nursing students to face similar critical cases and increasing personal protective equipment during the pandemic can be effective in preventing nursing students from depression, stress and anxiety.