Perception on the effects of participating in extra curricular activities to academic stress by nursing students who are members of school organizations in College of Nursing and School of Midwifery, DLSHSI

The study utilized the non-experimental descriptive method. The population of the study was the first year to third year students from BSN in DLSHSI in the summer of school year 2008-2009. One hundred five (105) students were chosen as samples of the study using snowball sampling. The main instrument was an adopted-modified questionnaire from the thesis of McCaughn (1999) composed of twenty questions. The statistical treatments utilized in this study were frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test and F-test. Based on the aforementioned findings, the following conclusions were obtained: 1) Majority of the nursing students who are members of school organization of De La Salle Health Sciences Institute are 18 to 19 years old, female, third year, Catholic, have monthly family income of Php40,001 and above, and affiliated with service oriented organizations; 2) Nursing students who are members of school organizations have high perceptions on the effects of participating in extracurricular activities; 3) The perception of nursing students who are members of school organizations on the effects of participating in extra-curricular activities to academic stress had no significant difference when grouped according to age, gender, religious affiliation and monthly family income; 4) The perception of nursing students who are members of school organizations on the effects of participating in extra-curiicular activities to academic stress had a significant difference when grouped according to year level and type of organization.