Abstract:
At the time of becoming a final-level student the challenge that must be experienced
is to write in the form of thesis which is one of the requirements to complete strata
1 (S1) education, however, in completing the preparation of thesis students must
face various obstacles and obstacles in compiling thesis, difficulty finding
references and obstacles come from outside the student, namely environmental
conditions at the time of completion of the study such as the conditions of the first
day. This is the corona virus outbreak which is also called the covid-19 pandemic.
As a result, the difficulties and obstacles experienced by students in the process of
preparing this thesis put students under pressure that can elicit a stress response in
learning and completing studies or better known as stress. Based on the potential
for stress in students who are compiling a thesis, a survey is needed to be conducted
to see the picture of the level of stress of students who are compiling the thesis. The
purpose of this study was to find out the picture of student stress levels in compiling
a thesis during the covid-19 pandemic in Stikes Bina Sehat PPNI Mojokerto, with
descriptive quantitative research types and using the Slovin formula to determine
the size of the sample and found the results of 67 respondents. Student stress was
measured using the PSS 10 questionnaire. The results stated the highest frequency
of severe stress levels as many as 32 respondents (47.8%).
