Future Anxiety and Immune Status in Nursing Students During COVID-2019 Pandemic

Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19)is a frightening global disease, especially because of itshigh contagiousness. Thisstudy aimed toidentify the future anxietyregarding immunity statusin nursing students who work in hospitals, especially those caring for patients with COVID-19. Thisstudy design was cross-sectional with standard translated in-struments of the Future Anxiety Scale and Immune Status Questionnaire administered using a Google Form to 102 res-pondents. Results revealed that among the respondents, 87 experienced severe psychologicalanxiety (85.3%), 46 expe-rienced moderate social anxiety (45.1%), 42 experienced moderate economic anxiety (41.2%), 38 experienced mild media anxiety (37.3%), 53 experienced mild religious anxiety (52%),45 experienced moderate general anxiety (44.1%), and 61 had mostly good immunity status (59.8%). The relationship betweenpsychological, social, economic, media,and general anxietywith immunity statuswas (p = 0.835), (p = 0.052), (p = 0.514), (p = 0.414), (p = 0.160),and (p = 0.123), res-pectively. In conclusion,a dominant future anxiety rate was found intherespondents but showed no relationshipwith immunity status. Future studiesmust includeheterogeneous respondents and moderate variables to further improve the accuracyof the findings. The present results serve asjustification for a program to address anxiety in nursing students during clinical practice in pandemic times.