@article{oai:nsg.repo.nii.ac.jp:00003948,
 author = {Tsukamoto, Yasuko and Masuda, Akemi},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {Niigata journal of health and welfare, 1346-8782},
 month = {},
 note = {application/pdf, 論文(Article), A clinical training is the most effective learning method for nursing students. Students have various learning experiences through communication with patients and families. These are positive experiences for students, but their minds and bodies are also strongly and negatively influenced. The purpose of this study was to develop changes in students' self-esteem and mental health conditions by the maternity nursing practicum. They were the following results. 1) Students were generally satisfied with the maternity nursing practicum, but no change was found in self-esteem before and after the practicum. Students with high self-esteem were more satisfied with the practicum than those with low self-esteem. 2) Mental health estimation items, “sleep disturbance,” “social dysfunction,” “suicide feeling and depressive tendency” and “anxiety and dysthymia,” decreased after the practicum. The practicum favorably influenced students’ mental health. 3) “Anxiety and dysthymia,” “suicide feeling and depressive tendency” and “general illness tendencies” decreased after the practicum in students with high satisfaction levels with the practicum. 4) The experience of delivery observation positively influenced students’ mental health. 5) In health habits, many students had a lack of sleep, and a high proportion of students belonged to the mentally unhealthy group compared to general college and university students.},
 pages = {11--18},
 title = {Investigation of changes in students’ self-esteem by the experience of maternity nursing practicum and factors involved},
 volume = {10},
 year = {2010}
}