Abstract

The purpose of this study was an descriptive research to investigate the relationship between stress and depression in nursing collage students during their collage lives and clinical practices, and to offer basic data used to find an alternative of reducing their stress. The subjects of this study were 562 nursing college students. The data were collected from structured questionnaire, and were collected from October to December, 2008. The results were summarized as follows; The mean score for stress was 2.58 and depression was 17.81. Stress with subjects' general characteristics was related to grade, age, pocket money, academic record, personality, meal time, perceived physical health status, and satisfaction of appearance. Depression with subjects' general characteristics was related to academic record, personality, meal time, perceived physical health status, and satisfaction of appearance. The relationship between stress and depression revealed a positive significant correlation. The implications of this study included that stress control program, the best way of influencing stress reduction, should be developed and provided it for them to prevent stress and to manage inevitable stress in nursing college students. (Korean J Str Res 2010;18:345∼351)

• Keywords: Nursing college student, Stress, Depression