Anxiety, Depression, and Frustration among Nursing Students in a Private Medical University in Southern Nigeria

Abstract

People including students experience Anxiety, Frustration, and Depression in everyday life, no matter their background. Anchored within the Lawrence Iruo’s Anxiety, Frustration, and Depression theoretical framework and employing the descriptive cross-sectional study approach; this research engaged 152 students as the study population to find out the percentage of Nursing Students in a private university in southern Nigeria who are experiencing Anxiety, Frustration, and Depression. A sample size of 77 participants was recruited through the random sampling method. These are students of PAMO University of Medical Sciences Port Harcourt on full scholarship: tuition, accommodation, feeding, and laundry with comfortable classrooms and hostels. The general belief is that since the students are above average in intelligence, they are not supposed to experience any degree of stress and by extension- anxiety. An adapted questionnaire was used in the data collection and descriptive statistics was used in analyzing the data. The result showed that 77.5% of the respondents agreed that they were experiencing frustration. On the other hand, 75% had anxiety, while 67.5% had depression. This shows clearly that no matter how comfortable one may be in life, you cannot be immune to Anxiety, Frustration, and Depression.