Occupational stress in nursing professionals from a third level hospital
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Portero de la Cruz S, Cebrino Cruz J, Vaquero Abellán M. Estrés laboral en profesionales de Enfermería en un hospital de tercer nivel. Metas Enferm abr 2016; 19(3): 27-32.
Authors
Silvia Portero de la Cruz1, Jesús Cebrino Cruz2, Manuel Vaquero Abellán3
Position
1Enfermera. Máster Oficial en Metodología de la Investigación en Ciencias de la Salud (Universidad de Córdoba). Estudiante de doctorado (Estrés laboral en el medio sanitario)2Licenciado en Biología. Máster Oficial en Biodiversidad y Biología de la Conservación (Universidad Pablo de Olavide). Estudiante de doctorado (Incidencia de la alergia al polen en población humana)3Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía. Catedrático. Doctor en Medicina y Cirugía por la Universidad de Bolonia
Contact address
Silvia Portero de la Cruz. Departamento de Enfermería. Facultad de Medicina y Enfermería. Universidad de Córdoba. Avda. Menéndez Pidal, s/n. 14071 Cór
Contact email: n92pocrs@uco.es
Abstract
the Nursing staff in a hospital from the Andalusian Public Health System, to determine their level of stress, and to study the relationship between the level of occupational stress and socio-occupational factors of this group.
Method: a transversal descriptive study in a sample of 210 nurses and nursing assistants selected by sampling by monoetapic conglomerate. Tools: Nursing Stress Scale, plus socio-occupational variables. Data treatment and analysis: descriptive statistics, and for bivariate analysis: Student’s t test, ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis non-parametric test, and Pearson Correlation Coefficient. Confidence Intervals were estimated at a 96% certainty level (CI 95%).
Results: uncertainty in Treatment was the sub-scale causing a higher level of stress both in nurses (4.4 scores; SD: 0.79) and in nursing assistants (4.3 scores; SD: 0.82). Besides, the mean occupational stress was significantly higher among nursing professionals without students in practice than among those who had them (p< 0.01).
Conclusions: the main situations generating stress in nurses are: Uncertainty in Treatment, Workload, and Continuous Exposure to Death and Suffering. Besides, those nursing professionals with students in practice assigned present a lower level of stress than those who don’t have any.
Keywords:
stress; occupational health; Nursing Stress Scale; hospital; research descriptive study
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Estrés laboral en profesionales de Enfermería de un hospital de tercer nivel
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