• SUBIN JIMMY
• JOYCE JOHN

Phobia is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by intense and irrational fear of something, leading to avoidance of the object, activity, or situation. Clinical posting can be a common trigger for phobias among medical, nursing, and other paramedical students, which can adversely impact their clinical performance and career. The study aims to assess the possible phobias of clinical postings in nursing students and develop an e-information booklet on therapies to overcome these phobias. A non-experimental, descriptive and quantitative study was adopted. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select the sample of 100 from nursing students from selected college of nursing in South India. A written consent was obtained before the data was collected and data obtained were analyzed in terms of statistical measures showing the majority samples had mild phobia. The findings of this study support the need for developing programs on awareness of phobias in clinical postings and therapies to overcome these phobias, as well as to inculcate them into the curriculum as extracurricular activities for medical, paramedical students and staffs respectively. There is a need to assess the phobias before beginning of the students’ clinical experience and implement the self-help guide to overcome their phobias. This will uplift the students’ overall performance in the clinical setting.

Phobia, anxiety, clinical postings, nursing

"POSSIBLE PHOBIAS OF CLINICAL POSTING AMONG NURSING STUDENTS OF SELECTED NURSING COLLEGE IN SOUTH INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no.e36-e39, May-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305405.pdf

"POSSIBLE PHOBIAS OF CLINICAL POSTING AMONG NURSING STUDENTS OF SELECTED NURSING COLLEGE IN SOUTH INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no. ppe36-e39, May-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305405.pdf