Research On The Effects Of Family Background Factors On Anxiety And Depression Of Nursing Students In A Vocational College

[Research background]Health is a kind of state which means a person isn’t sick or weak mentally or physically and he has strong adaptability. With the rapid development of the social economy and technology, people’s pace of life and working pressure are increasing. People who live in big or medium-sized cities always walk in a hurry, many of whom look healthy and energetic on the surface, but they may suffer from mental diseases or psychological disorder. Nursing students who are especially beset by anxiety and depression are no exception. It is school and family that nursing students of Higher Vocational Colleges keep closely engaged with before entering society. Family factors have a far-reaching influence on their mentality. The influence of household factors, the relationship between children and parents, economic conditions and educational mode are matters of concern.[Objectives]The main content of this paper is aimed at investigating the status of anxiety and depression of nursing students who are studying in a high vocational college in Anhui province. They are in different academic systems, including high vocational nursing, secondary vocational nursing and five-year preparatory nursing. The thesis focuses on family factors to spread related research. It will explore which factors in a family can cause nursing students’anxiety and depression, study these factors and find out strategies to control. Its purpose is to reduce morbidity of nursing students of high vocational colleges, increase their psychological resistance and find ways to get the best state of mind.[Methods]The survey time was at the end of March. With stratified sampling and cluster sampling,1,346 students were investigated among 4000 students at school, including 486 Nursing students,546 five-year nursing students and 314 higher vocational nursing students in a Secondary Vocational School. The There are totally twenty family factors about the investigation including the nursing students’ own situation, such as their ages, sexes, the reasons:why they majored in nursing, whether voluntary or not, amativeness or not, whether they have sisters and how about their academic achievements, living conditions, family classification system, parental marriage state, family income level, the relationship between parents and children and family education. The investigation adopt Self-rating Anxiety Scale, Self-rating Depression Scale and Family background questionnaire, SPSS 16.0 statistical analysis, single factor, Chi-Square test, and so on.[Main results]Among the total 1346 nursing students,21% of them have symptoms of anxiety and 35.5% of them have symptoms of depression. They are mildly 15.6% and 33.9% respectively. The result of the single factor analysis indicates that the five-year male students of the higher vocational college who are in love, have learning pressure and choose careers according to their economic reasons get the higher detection rates of anxiety (P<0.05). Five years of nursing and higher vocational nursing males who are in love and study well get the higher detection rates of depression. Multiple logistic regression analysis and Non-conditional logistic regression analysis indicate that parents’ remarriages, gaps between parents and children and autocratic education mode have a great influence on anxiety, of which autocratic education mode is the greatest. In high income families, nuclear families or families where parents are not around or indulge their children, students are more likely to get depressed (P<0.05).[Conclusions and suggestions]Many factors in the family such as economy, family type, the relationship between parents and between parents and children, educational methods are all related to the occurring of bad emotions. According to family factors leading to anxiety and depression, high vocational colleges should take emergency measures. Besides, schools and parents should make joint efforts to improve the psychological health status of nursing students and it is urgent to reduce the incidence of anxiety and depression and other negative mood.