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Dealing with stress :
Dealing with stress : Patterns of self-comfort among healthcare students
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- Dahlqvist, Vera (author)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för omvårdnad,The Vardal Institute, The Swedish Institute for Health Sciences, Lund, Sweden
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- Söderberg, Anna (author)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för omvårdnad
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- Norberg, Astrid (author)
- Ersta Sköndal högskola,Umeå universitet,Institutionen för omvårdnad,Enheten för forskning om vård i livets slutskede,Institutionen för vårdvetenskap
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- Elsevier BV, 2008
- 2008
- English.
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In: Nurse Education Today. - : Elsevier BV. - 0260-6917 .- 1532-2793. ; 28:4, s. 476-584
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- Stress among healthcare students is a growing problem. As self-comfort is assumed to be a way of coping with stressful emotions, the aim of this study was to describe the patterns of self-comforting actions that healthcare students usually use in distress. One hundred and sixty-eight healthcare students volunteered to write down accounts of what they do when they comfort themselves. Their accounts were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The findings reveal two themes: Ingressing and Transcending. Ingressing comprises the sub-themes Unloading, Distracting, Nurturing oneself, Withdrawing and Reassuring. Transcending comprises the sub-themes Opening up and Finding new perspectives. These findings are in line with some stress-reducing strategies described in the literature on stress management. Winnicott’s theory about the phenomenon of transition is used to interpret the findings. In the light of Winnicott’s theory, self-comforting measures can be comprehended as the ability to transfer early childhood experiences of being nurtured and comforted into well-adapted strategies to effect relaxation and gain strength.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Comfort
- Content analysis
- Healthcare students
- Stress
- Caring sciences
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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