| บทคัดย่อ(English) |
The purpose of this quasi - experimental research, two - grouppretest posttest design, was to study the effect of relaxation usingcomputer program on anxiety to clinical practice of nursing students. Thesamples were 40 nursing students, who studied in 2 ('nd) year of nursingcollege under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Health. They wasstudying in a nursing practice course. The samples were matched by TraitAnxiety scores and were randomly assigned into experimental group andcontrol group, 20 in each group. The experimental group received relaxationusing computer program. The control group received usual nursing practiceonly. The instruments consisted of two parts. The State- Trait AnxietyInventory from Y has a reliability of .95. The computer program focusingon imagery and relaxation training which was tested for content validity.Data were analyzed by t-test. Major findings were as follows: 1. The practice nursing students after receiving relaxation usingcomputer program was less than the anxiety significantly before receivingrelaxation using computer program, at the .05 level. 2. The anxiety to practice of nursing students after receivingrelaxation using computer program was significantly different between theexperimental and control groups, at the .05 level. |