Development and Validation of a Nursing Students' Clinical Practice Stress Scale: A Mixed Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In clinical environments, nursing students encounter a variety of stressors, which can significantly impact their well-being, learning outcomes and the quality of care they provide to patients.

Aims

To develop and validate the Nursing Students' Clinical Practice Stress Scale (NSCPSS) to measure clinical practice stressors in nursing students in Sri Lanka.

Design

An exploratory sequential mixed methods design.

Methods

The study was conducted in two phases. The NSCPSS items were developed in the qualitative phase based on data gathered through focus group interviews and a literature review. The quantitative phase focused on the psychometric evaluation of the scale, assessing its face, content, construct, convergent, discriminant validity and reliabilit

SUBMITTER: Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12789653 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature