Psychological Resilience Levels of Nursing Students and Coping Strategies in the COVID-19 Process: Descriptive Study

T Objective: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a serious public health problem that affects millions of people around the world physically, emotionally, psychological and economically. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the psychological resilience and coping strategies of nursing students during the COVID-19 outbreak. Material and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted between February-June 2020 with a total of 112 students studying in the third grade. “Descriptive Information Form”, “Question Form for COVID-19 Process” and “The Brief Resilience Scale” were used to collect data. Student’s t, Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U-tests were used to evaluate the data. Results: The average score of the nursing students’ psychological resilience is 19.32±4.27 and is at the “medium” level. The difference between nursing students’ gender, sleep patterns, mental disorders, changes in their time and health and their psychological resilience scores were found to be statistically significant (p<0.05). 46.4% of the nursing students stated that “the measures are a little too flexible than they should be” regarding the measures taken by the Ministry of Health. In the COVID-19 outbreak, nursing students stated 67.3% of used behavioral, 18.8% mental, 9.2% physical, and 4.7% faith coping strategies. Nursing students of the coping strategies and socio-demographic variables between determined there was no statistically significant difference (p>0.05). Conclusion: The result of this research, it was found that the psychological resilience level of the nursing students was medium level and they used "behavioral, mental, physical and religious" coping strategies in the COVID-19 epidemic.