Future Anxiety and Immune Status in Nursing Students During COVID-2019 Pandemic

Abstract

Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a frightening global disease, especially because of its high contagiousness. This study aimed to identify the future anxiety regarding immunity status in nursing students who work in hospitals, especially those caring for patients with COVID-19. This study design was cross-sectional with standard translated in-struments of the Future Anxiety Scale and Immune Status Questionnaire administered using a Google Form to 102 res-pondents. Results revealed that among the respondents, 87 experienced severe psychological anxiety (85.3%), 46 expe-rienced moderate social anxiety (45.1%), 42 experienced moderate economic anxiety (41.2%), 38 experienced mild media anxiety (37.3%), 53 experienced mild religious anxiety (52%), 45 experienced moderate general anxiety (44.1%), and 61 had mostly good immunity status (59.8%). The relationship between psychological, social, economic, media, and general anxiety with immunity status was (p = 0.835), (p = 0.052), (p = 0.514), (p = 0.414), (p = 0.160), and (p = 0.123), res-pectively. In conclusion, a dominant future anxiety rate was found in the respondents but showed no relationship with immunity status. Future studies must include heterogeneous respondents and moderate variables to further improve the accuracy of the findings. The present results serve as justification for a program to address anxiety in nursing students during clinical practice in pandemic times