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Background

Nursing students in the clinical setting experience a high level of stress. The understanding of people involved in nursing education, from coping strategies of nursing students with clinical stress, is highly important for any kind of planning in this field

Objective

To explore the coping strategies of Iranian nursing students with stress in a clinical setting.

Methods

This qualitative content analysis study was carried out with twenty nursing students who were selected using purposive sampling at the Razi nursing and midwifery school in Kerman, in Iran during a ten-month period in 2016. Data were collected using semi-structured face to face interviews, and analyzed through Graneheim and Lundman’s qualitative content analysis method.

Results

“Seeking well-being” as the main theme and three categories of “Active confrontation with stress”,“mastering the mind and body” and “avoidance” were obtained from data …