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Purpose: To identify specific coping skills that contribute to relieving anxiety and stress while supporting student nurses' mental health and psychological well-being., Design and Method: This is a cross-sectional online survey involving 261 students nurses from private and government-owned nursing schools in the Central Philippines., Results: Resilience was associated with reduced stress and anxiety and better mental health and psychological well-being. Mental disengagement was associated with lower anxiety and stress levels. Spiritual and not scientific sources of support were associated with lower stress and increased psychological well-being and mental health., Practice Implications: Nurse faculty should foster functional coping skills in student nurses to enhance their ability to endure negative psychological and mental health outcomes related to the pandemic., (© 2022 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)

Purpose: This study aims to assess the fear of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its influence on the students' fear of COVID-19 and intention to leave nursing school., Design and Methods: This study employed a cross-sectional design using self-report questionnaires distributed to 261 nursing students from the Philippines., Findings: The first-year nursing students are found to be the most fearful among the group. The students' fear of COVID-19 is associated with their high irritability, poor sleep quality, and desire to quit nursing school., Practice Implications: Students are perturbed by the pandemic and teachers should implement supportive, teaching-learning strategies to address the student's needs., (© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)

Objectives: This study was conducted to examine the levels of lockdown-induced fatigue and its association with personal resilience, coping skills, and health in college students., Design and Methods: This is an online cross-sectional study involving 243 college students in the Central Philippines during the 6th month of the lockdown measure implementation., Findings: College students experience moderate levels of fatigue during the mandatory lockdown period. Increased personal resilience and coping skills were associated with lower levels of lockdown fatigue., Practice Implications: Lockdown fatigue may be addressed by formulating and implementing interventions to enhance personal resilience and coping skills among college students., (© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)

Objective: To determine the influence of coping behaviors, resilience, and social support on students' emotional and social loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic., Design and Methods: A cross-sectional research design was used to gather data from 303 college students from the Central Philippines using four standardized scales through an online survey., Findings: Loneliness among students was high during the coronavirus pandemic. Resilience, coping behaviors, and social support were identified as protective factors against loneliness., Practice Implications: Interventions directed toward increasing resilience, social support, and coping behaviors may help decrease emotional and social loneliness caused by the mandatory lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic., (© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.)

Purpose: This study explored the prevalence and predictors of postpartum depression (PPD) as well as the utilization and evaluation of PPD services among postpartum women in rural areas of the Philippines., Design and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted. One hundred sixty-five women who visited maternal facilities in the rural areas of the Central Philippines completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)., Findings: The prevalence of PPD was 16.4% at the sixth postpartum week. Occupation and marital status had significant direct influences on PPD. PPD services were not routinely provided by doctors and nurses., Practice Implications: Our results highlight a greater need to intensify government programs relative to PPD services, specifically related to the early detection and screening of PPD among high-risk pregnancies., (© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)

Purpose: This study was conducted to compare perceptions of stress and quality of life (QoL) among nursing students from three countries (the Philippines, Greece, and Nigeria) and to examine the impact of stress on their QoL., Design and Methods: A comparative, cross-sectional research design was used in this study. Data were collected from 547 nursing students from three countries using the perceived stress scale (PSS) and the quality of life evaluation skill (QOLES)., Findings: Students' perceptions of stress and QoL were different across the three countries. Furthermore, higher stress perceptions were identified from taking care of patients, the clinical environment, and faculty, peer, and staff encounters, which predicted a negative QoL., Practice Implications: The findings emphasized the need for empirically tested and culturally tailored interventions to effectively reduce stress and enhance the QoL in nursing students., (© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)