Foot spa as an anti-stress treatment and its effect on the clinical performance of Ateneo de Davao University Level IV Section Female Students / Christia Alice Basa, et al

Abstract

The purpose of this study "Foot Spa as an anti-stress treatment and its effect on the performance of Ateneo de Davao University Level IV section a femala students" is centered on the effectivity of Foot Spa in the clinical performance of student nurses. It tries to seek whether there really is relationship between the therapeutic effects of Foot Spa and the clinical performance of the students. Involved in this study is the female population of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing Level IV of Section A. The study was guided by the null hyphothesis. There is no significant between the pre-test and post=test mean scores of the subjects' clinical performances. The Before-After Design of the Experimental Research Method will be used as the research design. A Clinical Performance Checklist was utilized to evaluate the clinical performances of the test subjects before and after the intervention of Foot-Spa treatments. The results of the study revelead that there is a significant difference in the pre-test and post-test mean score of the test subjects at 5% level of significance. The test subjects performed better after the intervention in terms of their clinical performance. Foot-Spa treatment which was the experimental variable was found out to be an effective anti-stress treatment in terms of the outcome of the performance of the test subjects. From the aforecited findings of the study, it was concluded that the implementation of foot spa has a significant effect on the clinical performance of nursing students, that foot-spa has a significant effect on the clinicla performance of nursing students, that foot spa has contributed to the subjects improvement in their psychomotor and affective skills, and that foot spa is an effective anti-stree treatment.