TITLE:
Risk factors in dropping out of nursing studies
AUTHORS:
Milagros De la Rosa Hormiga, Candelaria de la Merced Díaz-González, Josefa María Ramal López, Juan Manuel Herrera Hernández
KEYWORDS:
School Failure; Higher Education; Anxiety
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nursing,
Vol.4 No.1,
January
8,
2014
ABSTRACT: School
failure is a worrying phenomenon of the educational system that affects most
sectors of the education regarding parents, teachers and students and covers
education at all levels, from basic education levels to higher levels. One of
the levels where there is a high incidence of this problem is in university education,
where dropout rates at university are between 25% and 50% in the early
formative years. Therefore, it is considered that this phenomenon of school
failure and dropout must be addressed and treated from all support systems and
services that merge at school, because there are many interests involved not
only in the student who fails himself, but also in society in general. The
objective of this survey is finding out the effects of anxiety and personal
problems in ULPGC nursing students and the consequences that can bring in their
academic performance. The results obtained show direct influence of variables
such as attendance, studies organization, disappointment feelings, approaching dropout and others, however the hypotheses
that were not met differentially, offer us relevant information, for better understanding and making decisions to
prevent school failure at university.