Coping studentů oborů všeobecná sestra a zdravotnický záchranář.

Introduction: The study is focused on the description of stress management strategies in students of general nurse and paramedic study programmes. Stress is an integral and everyday part of these two occupations. Constant changes, patient care or even life-saving procedures that, despite all efforts, end in death, all these events cause over-limit and long-term stress. Objectives: This study aims to describe the differences in the use of positive and negative coping strategies in students of general nurse and paramedic, including comparison with the population standard. Methods: Cross-sectional questionnaire survey by SVF-78. The sample of respondents consisted of 74 students of the paramedic and 50 students of the general nurse. Results: Statistical processing of the results revealed that there was a statistically significant difference in the overall use of strategies between general nurse and paramedic (p = 0.005). The results are the same in the use of positive strategies, but in the use of negative strategies, they differ in favour of paramedics (p = 0.001). However, both fields show higher scores than the population standard (p = 0.003 resp. p = 0.001). Conclusion: Although the results show that medical students have well-developed coping strategies of stress towards the general population, a closer examination revealed that students of nursing used more negative strategies, especially escape from the problem, inability to detach and feel helpless. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]