| Title | Changes in Nursing Students' Career Choices Following the COVID-19 Pandemic in China |
| Authors | Bai, Wei Xi, Hai-Tao Zhu, Qianqian Wang, Zhiwen Han, Lin Chen, Pan Cai, Hong Zhao, Yan-Jie Chen, Li Ge, Zong-Mei Ji, Mengmeng Zhang, Hongyan Yang, Bing-Xiang Liu, Shuo Cheung, Teris Ungvari, Gabor S. An, Fengrong Xiang, Yu-Tao |
| Affiliation | Univ Macau, Fac Hlth Sci, Inst Translat Med, Unit Psychiat,Dept Publ Hlth & Med Adm, Macau, Peoples R China Univ Macau, Ctr Cognit & Brain Sci, Macau, Peoples R China Univ Macau, Inst Adv Studies Humanities & Social Sci, Macau, Peoples R China Jilin Univ, Dept Psychiat, Coll Nursing, Changchun, Peoples R China Capital Med Univ, Sch Nursing, Beijing, Peoples R China Capital Med Univ, Sch Mental Hlth, Adv Innovat Ctr Human Brain Protect,Natl Clin Res, Beijing Key Lab Mental Disorders,Beijing Anding H, Beijing, Peoples R China Peking Univ, Sch Nursing, Beijing, Peoples R China Lanzhou Univ, Sch Nursing, Lanzhou, Peoples R China Wuhan Univ, Sch Hlth Sci, Wuhan, Peoples R China Hong Kong Polytech Univ, Sch Nursing, Hong Kong, Peoples R China Univ Western Australia, Graylands Hosp, Sch Med, Div Psychiat, Perth, WA, Australia Univ Notre Dame Australia, Dept Psychiat, Fremantle, WA, Australia |
| Keywords | WORKERS NURSES HEALTH PREVALENCE IMPACT |
| Issue Date | 13-Apr-2021 |
| Publisher | FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY |
| Abstract | Background: Health professionals including nurses have experienced heavy workload and great physical and mental health challenges during the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, which may affect nursing students' career choices. This study examined the changes in nursing students' career choices after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Methods: This study was conducted in five University nursing schools in China between September 14, 2020 and October 7, 2020. Career choices before and after the COVID-19 pandemic were collected and analyzed. Results: In total, 1,070 nursing students participated in the study. The reported choice of nursing as future career increased from 50.9% [95% confidence interval (CI): 47.9-53.9%] before the COVID-19 pandemic to 62.7% (95%CI: 59.8-65.6%) after the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. Students who chose nursing as their future career following the COVID-19 outbreak had less severe depression and anxiety compared to those who did not choose nursing, but the associations of depression and anxiety with career choice disappeared in multivariable analyses. Binary logistic regression analysis revealed that male gender [odds ratio (OR) = 0.68, 95% CI: 0.50-0.91], rural residence (OR = 1.53, 95%CI: 1.17-2.00), fourth year students (OR = 0.50, 95%CI: 0.35-0.72), negative experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic (OR = 0.66, 95%CI: 0.47-0.92), and good health (OR = 4.6, 95%CI: 1.78-11.87) were significantly associated with the choice of nursing as future career after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic appeared to have a positive influence on the career choice of nursing among Chinese nursing students. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/612553 |
| ISSN | 1664-0640 |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.657021 |
| Indexed | SCI(E) SSCI |
| Appears in Collections: | 护理学院 |
