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The document discusses the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its impacts. It introduces COVID-19 as a pneumonia-like disease caused by a novel coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China in late 2019. Due to its high contagiousness and potential lethality, COVID-19 poses a major global public health threat. The pandemic has also had huge impacts on people's mental health, causing increased anxiety, fear, and other emotional problems. Nursing students experience additional stressors during the pandemic, such as fear of infection, which can affect their health, performance, and quality of care provided.

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Chen Et Al., 2015 Sancar Et Al., 2018

The document discusses the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its impacts. It introduces COVID-19 as a pneumonia-like disease caused by a novel coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China in late 2019. Due to its high contagiousness and potential lethality, COVID-19 poses a major global public health threat. The pandemic has also had huge impacts on people's mental health, causing increased anxiety, fear, and other emotional problems. Nursing students experience additional stressors during the pandemic, such as fear of infection, which can affect their health, performance, and quality of care provided.

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Introduction

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a substantial health burden that has major
implications for public globally. COVID-19 is a pneumonia-like disease caused by a novel coronavirus that emerged
in the Province of Wuhan in China in November 2019. Affecting nearly all the countries in the world, it is a historic
health emergency condition has ever seen which is even worse than world war II. The rate of contagion and patterns
of transmission is threatening the whole mankind. As the disease is highly contagious, can be fatal in severe cases,
and there are no specific medicines, it poses a huge threat to the life and leading to a severe impact on their
emotional responses and coping strategies. According to WHO, COV1D-19 was declared in March 2020 as a
pandemic in the Philippines. Moreover, Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECO) was implemented by the
government to help the country' s efforts to curb the adverse impact s of the COVID-19 pandemic (David et al
2020). Pandemic is the outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally
high proportion of the population, a pandemic outbreak of a disease.

Anxiety is highly prevalent among college students. The top three concerns among students are academic
performance, pressure to succeed, and post-graduation plans (Beiter et al, 2005). Nursing education has consistently
been associated with anxiety among students. Heavy course loads, stringent examinations, continued pressure to
attain a high grade point average (Chernomas and Shapero, 2013)complex interpersonal relationships, challenges of
the clinical environment (Chen et al., 2015), caring for chronic and terminally ill patients ( Sancar et al., 2018) result in greater
anxiety among nursing students than among students from any of the other healthcare disciplines. During an
epidemic/pandemic state, nursing students are exposed to additional stressful factors, such as fear of being infected.
Coping with anxiety and stress is extremely important regarding the influence anxiety and stress will have on health.

The clinical part of nursing education is more stressful than the theoretical part. The common causes of
clinical stress in nursing students included the fear of unknown events, working with equipment staff and faculty
incivility , theory and practice gap , the fear of making a mistake and communication with staff, peers and patients .
Stress can lead to disease, changes in health, poor academic performance, students withdrawal from the program ,
and can ultimately affect the quality of patient care . Because nursing students are not able to avoid these stressors, it
is necessary for students to cope with them, if they are not able to manage their stress, it will affect their
performance, health, attitude and role satisfaction as a nurse . In a stress-adaptive strategy, the individual’s ability to
coping with stress is more important than the stress itself, Suitable coping methods reduce stress-induced injuries .
Coping is a dynamic, behavioral and cognitive effort in controlling internal and external stress. There are at least
two types of coping strategies; problem-focused and emotion-focused. Each individual uses one of the strategies
depending on the type of threat, previous beliefs or impermanent factors such as changing strategy based on type of
feedback .Research has demonstrated that, nursing students employ a variety of coping strategies such as; talking to
friends, sports, crying, ignoring stress, feelings of sadness/misery and the use of alcohol, which may be adaptive or
maladaptive . Some studies have pointed to problem solving as the most utilized strategy in nursing students .Others
refer to emotion-focused coping methods, while some believe that transference, optimism and problem solving are
the most used strategies among nursing students . Since, coping strategies of nursing students affect their physical
and mental health as well as the quality of care provided by them, identifying coping strategies of nursing students is
important for early interventions.

Therefore, dealing with the hectic student nursing life the drastic lifestyle changes imposed due to COVID
19 pandemic can be very challenging. The present study aimed to assess level of anxiety and ways of coping during
the period of covid19 pandemic and identify association of coping strategies with characteristics of the students
among nursing students in the Northern Christian College.
Introduction

In December 2019, multiple unexplained cases of pneumonia were reported in Wuhan, Hubei
Province, China. Epidemiological findings revealed severe human-to-human transmission, which was
later confirmed to be caused by a novel corona virus (2019-nCoV) infection. The World Health
Organization (WHO) named it Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19, its strong contagion factor, lethality in severe cases, and
no specific medication, it poses a huge threat to human life and health. The disease also has a huge
impact on mental health, causing people to experience various degrees of emotional problems [3].
Seventeen years ago, the emergence of SARS in China also caused widespread fear and heightened
emotions [4,5]. Therefore, we can predict that the outbreak of COVID-19 will cause considerable mass
hysteria such as tension, anxiety, and fear which may lead to severe psychological disorders such as
acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and suicide.

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