Factors generating stress in nursing students

This study aims to explore the perceived stressors among students at the Higher Institute of Nursing professions and Health Techniques (ISPITS) in Rabat, and the coping strategies used. This is a descriptive study, based on the documentary analysis and the interviews, conducted, in 2009, among 500 students from all training courses and 18 administrative and pedagogical managers. Institutional factors (78.8%) are clearly causes that generate students’ stress in relation to personal and environmental factors. Students manage the stress, generated by all factors, adopting emotional, behavioral and cognitive attitudes. The majority of students engage in isolation and loneliness. The interventions of the sections coordinators towards stressed students take the form of listening and psycho-emotional support that they provide to them. Stress among undergraduate students at ISPITS Rabat is a reality. The establishment of a listening team for students, the improvement of learning conditions, good planning and organization of studies, and the dissemination of information and prevention programs to students and teachers are essential measures to deal with student stress. Stress management interventions should be offered to students at the beginning of their training in order to reduce the negative impact of stress and exhaustion on these students

The role of NGOs and associations in health care for migrants in North West Morocco

Associations working in the field of migrant health are currently an important link to meet the health needs of the migrant population. Draw up their inventory, in the region of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, has been identified as an essential tool to analyze the roles of this category of partners, their experiences and modes of operation with a zoom on their constraints in the realization of their mission. A descriptive study, based on the literature review, interviews and focus groups with migrants, was conducted in 2018, with 25 associations active in the field of health and migration, selected by reasoned sampling; 72% of associations surveyed were created in the 2000s. Mostly between 18 and 60 years, migrants receiving NGO’s services are frequently in a situation of vulnerability and precariousness; 68% are unemployed. There are many reasons for using associations’ health services, mostly by women (56%). In a context of strong competition between the associations themselves, marked by the limits of coordination, the implementation of their health interventions for the benefit of migrants is becoming increasingly difficult. Better coordination between public authorities and associations will help to put in place efficient health interventions that meet the real needs of migrants in Morocco