Stress e Hardiness entre enfermeiros hospitalares / Stress and hardiness among hospital nurses

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2011

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Introduction: Some strategies are currently to minimize the stress at work and its influences on the professional health, as well as all its negative repercussions in the professional field, such as: cost of absenteeism, accidents at work, occupational diseases and the lack of motivation. The present study analyzed Hardiness as personality characteristic and composed by control, commitment and challenge. Objectives: identify and determine the level of Hardiness and stress in a public hospital nurses Vitória ES, Brazil. Method: descriptive and exploratory study and quantitative approach. The population was constituted by 72 hospital nurses. The data were collected using Stress Scale by Bianchi EBS, Perceived Stress Scale PSS10, Hardiness Scale HS and Scale of Stress at Work EET. The data was analyzed using absolute frequencie (N) and relative frequncie (%). Media were used to study the scales: EBS, PSS 10, HS and EET. The statistical tests were: Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis, Spearman, Hosmer-Lemeshow. The level o significance adopted was p<0,05. Logistic regression was performed for variables with p<0,20. Results: The results demonstrated that nurses have in medium level of stress (score 3.96), and stressors were related to activities of coordination in the unit (score 4.65) and working conditions for the performance of nurse activities (score 4.15). Regarding to hardiness, there were highest average score for hardiness subscale control (average = 20.58) and hardiness subscale commitment (average = 20.34), being the smallest average assigned to hardiness subscale challenge (average = 14.25). Hardiness was not influenced by stress or work stress. There was inverse correlation between stress and hardiness. Hardiness and stress were not related to personal characteristics. Hardiness was predictor to work stress. Conclusion: Hardiness is not an answer to all conflicts that emerge from work, but it is a chance of modification in the stress perception, mobilizing strategies for a better confront the difficulties at work world.

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enfermeiro hardiness hardiness hospital hospital. nurse professional health saúde do trabalhador stress stress

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