Objective:

to estimate the prevalence of coping strategies used in situations of anxiety by nursing students in the four years of graduation.

Methods:

epidemiological quantitative, transversal type, carried out in Paraná-Brazil with 135 university students. The Anxiety Self-Assessment Questionnaire (IDATE) and the Coping Strategies Inventory were applied. The analyzes were performed using the SPSS program, version 2.5, using the Kruskal-Wallis, Jonckheere-Terpstra and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests and Spearman correlation, at a level of p <0.05.

Results:

IDATE Trait: Domain 1 refers to the “confrontation” and presents itself as a well-used strategy throughout the series (r:0.27). The D5 domain, “Escape-Dodge”, was used as a means of coping with certain situations (r:0.29). TRAÇO Status: 66% of nursing students presented anxiety and symptoms compatible with anxiety disorders in the Trait e domain (n = 10). 31.8% (n = 43) of 1st grade students had symptoms compatible with anxiety, followed by 26.6% (n = 36) 4th grade students.

Conclusion:

coping strategies were used less frequently, showing that the higher the grade, the less students use them, but the level of anxiety remained high. These findings contributed to the creation of projects, meditation groups, therapies and the like, in order to help students minimize stress as a student and practice the use of coping in their daily lives, in addition to improving teaching and better mastery of teacher in relation to the student in situations of anxiety.

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