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ABSTRACT
Students have different types of stressors, and this stressor lead to anxiety and poor performance in the scholastic skills. A number of remedial measures are adopted by students in order to reduce this stressors and anxiety. This study aims to determine the relationship between academic stress, anxiety and academic performance along with remedial measures adopted. Methods: A Pub Med, SCOPUS and Google scholar (2002-2016) literature review was undertaken to define sources of academic stress, anxiety, remedial measures adopted and its satisfaction to reduce academic stress and anxiety among nursing students. Results: We identified 62 relevant articles. The most frequently noted form of academic stress and anxiety is academic stressors, social stressors, personal stressors, year of study, gender and teacher’s stress. Use of effective stress reduction techniques is benefitted for students to reduce academic stress, anxiety and improve academic performance. Conclusions: This article highlights the prevalence of academic stress and anxiety due to excessive competition, study of new subjects, change in environment, come far from their homes and family and study in university among nursing students. Therefore, this article also stated that use of remedial measures is highly benefited to students to reduce their stress and anxiety and to improve academic performance. This article recommended that the college should arrange the necessary environmental conditions to reduce the student’s academic stress and anxiety.