Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 338-343 , May 2010

Relationship between coping, self-esteem, individual factors and mental health among Chinese nursing students: A matched case–control study

  • Chunping Ni

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Military Preventive Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, 17 Changlexi Street, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province 710032, PR China
    • Department of Nursing, Fourth Military Medical University, 17 Changlexi Street, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province 710032, PR China
    • These two authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Xiwen Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Fourth Military Medical University, 17 Changlexi Street, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province 710032, PR China
    • These two authors contributed equally to this work.
    • ,
  • Qianzhen Hua

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Fourth Military Medical University, 17 Changlexi Street, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province 710032, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Tel./fax: +86 29 847 748 94.
    • ,
  • Aili Lv

      Affiliations

    • Faculty of Nursing, Medical School, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, 76 Yantaxi Street, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province 710061, PR China
    • ,
  • Bo Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Military Preventive Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, 17 Changlexi Street, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province 710032, PR China
    • ,
  • Yongping Yan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, School of Military Preventive Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, 17 Changlexi Street, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province 710032, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Tel./fax: +86 29 847 748 94.

,Accepted 3 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.09.003

Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 338-343 , May 2010

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