Showing 11 results for Stress
M Arab, H Shabaninejad, A Rashidian, A Rahimi, K Purketabi,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (2-2013)
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Background: The purpose of this study is to survey the Working Life Quality of specialists working in affiliated hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
Materials & Methods: The statistical population of this study includes 400 specialists and a crosssectional Descriptive & analytical method has been used to gain credible results.. Van lar working life quality questionnaire was used to gather the data needed.. The data were analyzed with the SPSS software through T-test and Anova statistical tests. In addition, the simultaneous effect of independent variables in the model was evaluated using the Backward Regression Model.
Results: The average total working life quality of specialists working in affiliated hospitals of Tehran university of medical sciences is estimated to be 48.75 percent. Total working life quality of male specialists is higher than the females and the index is higher in specialists resident in Tehran compared to the other ones but these differences are not significant statistically.. Working life quality of specialists which are satisfied with the facilities in their working places are higher compared to the others and these differences are significant statistically. In addition working life quality has decreased with the increase in the experience.
Conclusion: Working life quality of the Specialists studied is not in a satisfying level, thus more attention and effective plans are needed from responsible authorities in the ministry of health and the managers of the hospitals studied in order to improve specialist`s working life quality.
P Mehdizadeh, A Pourreza, H Allahverdipour, N Dopeykar,
Volume 12, Issue 1 (5-2013)
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Background: This study aimed to survey the relationship between job stress, self- efficiency and coping ability among staff of therapeutic- educational hospitals of Tabriz University of Medical sciences.
Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009 among therapeuticeducational hospitals of based on a two stage random sampling. Initially seven hospitals were selected using a simple random method and then 288 persons from the therapeutic and administrative staff were chosen as the sample to be studied using a classified random method. Data were collected using 4 questionnaires titled personal information, self-efficiency, Tores Theorell's job stress scale and Schwarzer's self efficacy and Coping Inventory for Stressful Situation CISS-21 ( Dutch's coping). Data were analyzed Using SPSS software version 11.5 and also Chi-Squared test, T -test, One-Way Anova , Regression analysis and Pearson correlation coefficient.
Results: All the demographic variables including age, gender, marital status, working hours and work experience had a significant relationship with job stress. Pearson correlation test indicated a negative correlation between job stress and self- efficiency, working hours, age and work experience (P<0.001). Additionally there was a positive correlation between self- efficiency and working hours and age and coping ability with work experience ( p< 0.05).
Conclusion: Considering the importance of staff`s mental health issue it is suggested that background factors such as high work load ,dignity level and social value and social supportive programs are taken into close consideration staff`s needs related to these issues are fully satisfied so that better health services are provided.
M Mahboubi, A Jalali, M Mohammadi,
Volume 12, Issue 3 (12-2013)
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Background: Job environment is a strong stimulus for created of emotions and there are several stressful situations which could causes dissatisfaction, low work performance, quit or job-changing. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between sensation seeking with job stress among emergency medicine workers and non emergency medicine workers.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 60 emergency medicine workers chosen the census method and 60 non emergency medicine workers chosen the convenience sampling method, in border cities of KUMS, were selected for study. Data were collected by valid and reliable questionnaires of job stress and sensation seeking. Data were analyzed using descriptive and analytical statistics.
Results: The most rate of job stress among emergency medicine workers was in the level of moderate (46.6percent) and in the non-emergency medicine workers was the low level (56.4percent) and the most rate of sensation seeking among emergency medicine workers was in the level of lower the moderate (35 percent) and in the non-emergency medicine workers was lower the moderate level (40 percent). There were indirect relationship between job stresses with to be thrilled, to be experienced and to be diversity of the variable of sensation seeking and there was a direct relationship between to be blues and to be scope of inhibition of the variable of sensation seeking.
Conclusion: Results can be regarded managers to decrease of losses due to job stress and increase productivity, especially in emergency medicine workers across the country
L Vali , M ,amini Zade, T Sharifi , N Oroomiei , S Mirzaee , R Ghorbani Nia ,
Volume 13, Issue 2 (8-2014)
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Background: EMS technicians are faced with numerous stressful situations during a working day. These mental tensions may significantly effect on delivered services quality actually. This situation can be considered as a threaten risk for people who use the EMS. This study aimed to determine the most common stressful factors influencing the EMS technicians in Kerman.
Materials Methods: In this cross-sectional study 140 EMS technicians participated. Sampling method was census and data collection was done by using a valid and reliable nursing tension factors questionnaire. Data analyzing was performed by SPSS software version 19 using Pearson correlation coefficient, Spearman and regression tests.
Results: The most and least common stressful factors were patient care (Mean=3.24) and environmental tension (Mean=2.64) respectively. Regression analysis revealed significant relation between age and environment tension factors (β = -0.155, p=0.034,) and managerial stressful factors had significant relation with gender (β= -2.955, p= 0.047) and educational level of EMS technicians (β= -0.23,p=0.05).
Conclusion: Patient care and personal factors cause stressful situations among EMS technicians. Therefore, it is recommended emergency managers to provide strategies toward decreasing job stress in order to improve the quality of working life and organizational commitment to help EMS technicians.
Marziye Kheirmand, Farzad Kheirmand, Ayoub Pazhouhan ,
Volume 15, Issue 1 (6-2016)
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Background: Nursing is considered as one of the most stressful occupation which influences their quality of work and life. The inevitable fact of occupational stress and low emotional intelligence management leads to negative effect on the nurses’ performance. The study aimed at determining the relationship between emotional intelligence and occupational stress among the nurses of alzahra hospital in Isfahan.
Materials and Methods: This study was an applied and descriptive survey. The study population consisted of 960 nurses of alzahra hospital in Isfahan. Sample size calculated 247 using Cochran formula. Sampling method was stratified random sampling. Data gathering was used by two questionnaires including emotional intelligence (sybershring) with 0.85 reliability coefficient and Health and Safety Institution of England (HSE) questionnaire with 0.84 reliability coefficients. Data analysis performed by SPSS software using independent t-test and Pierson Correlation Coefficient tests.
Results: Findings revealed that the stress level and its measuring scales such as expectations, control, management support, colleague’s support and role ranked more and the interrelation scale ranked less than average among nurses. Emotional intelligence level of nurses and scales such as self-awareness and self-regulation ranked average and empathy, self-motivation and social skills ranked less than average. Therefore, there was a significant relation between the emotional intelligence level and nurses' stress in p<0.05. With increasing the emotional intelligence level, the occupational stress in nurses decreased.
Conclusions: Having emotional intelligence skills can result in experiencing stress less and improving nursing performance; and better service quality among patients. Hence, hospital’s managers should be adopting proper policies with respect to the emotional intelligence.
Ali Mohammadzadeh, Majid Vahedi, Karim Ghorbani, Esa Jafari,
Volume 15, Issue 1 (6-2016)
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Background: Given that Tabriz Shohada hospital is the place of admitting emergency patients including accident victims, Nurses are exposed to double stress at hospital. This study conducted to predict nursing stress based on personality traits and job engagement among nurses in Shohada hospital of Tabriz.
Materials and Methods: The current study was a correlational one. Randomly selected 105 nurses from Tabriz Shohada hospital sections such as sixth general sections including Rehabilitation, ICU & Emergency Department participated. Contributors answered to Nursing Stress Scale, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire Revised (EPQ-R) and Job Engagement Scale. Data were analyzed using stepwise multiple regression analysis.
Results: The study results indicated that nursing stress was more strongly associated with the neuroticism; there were no relationships among nursing stress and extraversion or psychoticism. Also, nursing stress revealed a positive relationship with job engagement. Using the multivariate regression analysis showed that the neuroticism trait (p< 0.001, F=10.68) and job engagement (p= 0.004, F=10.12) were suitable predictors for nursing stress among three personality factors and job engagement.
Conclusions: Nursing stress influenced by internal factors more than demographic variables and two important predictive variables (neuroticism trait and job engagement) had more important roles in nursing stress prediction.
Dr Abdorrahim Afkhamzadeh, Dr Sharmin Fateh Babamiri,
Volume 16, Issue 3 (11-2017)
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Background: Job stress is a part of physician, nurses and hospital executives lives. Medical is tense basicly and tension affects the quality of life and health of physician. This study aimed to determine the occupational stress and its relates factors among medical residents in Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences.
Materials and Methods: In a cross-sectional study, all of seventy-one medical residents of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences (first to fourth of residency in 2012) in the field of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and psychiatry were recruited in the study. Data collection was performed using standard questionnaire of job stress, Osipow. In the descriptive analysis, mean, standard deviation (SD) and range were determined for quantitative variables. For hypothesis analysis t-test and chi-square were used.
Results: Mean age and SD was 32.3 ± 3.05 years. Thirty-nine of participants (54.9%) were female and 32 (45.1%) male respectively. Job stress was moderate to severe and low to moderate in 80.3% and 19.7% participants respectively. Average job stress score were almost th same in different scales. But, stress in responsibility subscale was more than the others. Gender, specialty field and all subscales of job stressors had significant relationship with Job stress (P<0.05). But age, marital status and years of residency were not associated with job stress (P>0.05).
Conclusion: As the majority of medical residents experiencie moderate stress, providing interventions in residency training programs management in order to reduce the stress in Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences seems necessary.
Dr Sanaz Zargar Balaye Jame, Mohammad Alimoradnori, Amin Daneshvar,
Volume 17, Issue 3 (11-2018)
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Background: Job burnout is a result of long-term job stress, which can reduce the quality ofeducation and provision of services. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between jobburnout and its dimensions with occupational stress in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2018.
Materials and Methods: The present study was a descriptive-analytic one. The sample of studyconsisted of 137 staff in faculties of Management and Medical Information, Advanced Technologies inMedicine, Rehabilitation and Nursing and Midwifery in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences using
convenience sampling method in 2018.The study tools were demographic s , Maslach and OSIPOWquestionnaires. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 23 software by descriptive statistics andinferential statistics such as ANOVA, T-test and Pearson correlation coefficient.
Results: Emotional exhaustion calculated in low level (45.2%), depersonalization in high level (45.2%), personal accomplishment in high level (75.3%) and the most participants had normal stress(54.8%). Similarly, based on Pearson Correlation Coefficient, there was a positive significantrelationship between job stress and job burnout and its dimensions, but there was no significantrelationship between personal accomplishment and job stress.
Conclusion: Study results revealed that the higher job stress among employees, the higher jobburnout among employees. As a result, implementing the interventions to reduce occupational stressand strengthen some resources can be helpful to reduce the burnout of employees.
Dr Sima Rafiei, Mohammad Zakaria Kiaiei, Pejman Sadeghi, Zahra Rahmati,
Volume 18, Issue 1 (5-2019)
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Background: One of the main important principles of human health is spirituality which its promotion could lead to an effective control of work related stress; can be considered in nurses’ job performance and assurance of their physical and mental health as a crucial factor. This study aimed to explore the effect of spiritual health on job stress among nurses employed in a training hospital affiliated to Qazvin University of Medical Sciences in 2017.
Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive-cross sectional one conducted on 220 nurses at Velayat hospital in Qazvin city. Data gathering was performed using two standard questionnaires including spiritual health and nurses' job stress. Data analysis was carried out with SPSS22 using descriptive statistical methods, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and multivariate regression analysis at a significance level of P < 0.05.
Results: The mean score of spiritual health and job stress assessed at a moderate level 70.5±5.2 and77.5±2.3, respectively. Spiritual health in both religious and intrinsic dimensions, gender, job history and type of employment were statistically related to job stress (p<0.05). Furthermore, multiple regression analysis revealed these variables predict 25% of job stress variation.
Conclusion: Due to the important role of spiritual health on job stress among nurses, strengthen this dimension of health through acknowledging them about its potential effects on physical and mental health and ultimately on successful job performance recommended.
Abbasali Rastgar, Mahdieh Vishlaghi,
Volume 20, Issue 4 (12-2021)
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Objective: Organizational bullying leads to uncontrollable stressful situations in which people cannot perform their tasks properly and relax and this may lead to fatigue and exhaustion. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of organizational bullying on emotional exhaustion mediated by nurses' psychological distress.
Methodology: This study is applied research and descriptive. The population of the study is the nurses of Shariati Hospital in Tehran. 148 questionnaires returned Based on simple random sampling and the research data analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software. Research variables measured using the questionnaire of organizational bullying of Inerson et al. (2009), psychological distress of Kessler et al. (2003) and emotional Exhaustion of Maslaj and Jackson (1981).
Results: Organizational bullying has effect on nurses' emotional Exhaustion directly and also effect on nurses' emotional Exhaustion through mediation of psychological distress indirectly.
Conclusion: The results of the present study have brought innovations in the field of organizational bullying and psychological distress of nurses and also help hospital managers to understand the effect of organizational bullying on nurses' emotional Exhaustion by providing comfortable working conditions to prevent emotional Exhaustion. Also because of the effect of organizational bullying on psychological distress, managers have to create a friendly atmosphere to prevent such psychological states so that they can provide appropriate services.
Elahe Totabi, Reza Mirzaei, Mohsen Najmaddini,
Volume 22, Issue 1 (5-2023)
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Background and purpose: The physical environment of the hospital includes elements and components that improve the quality of the treatment environment and also reduce the stress of the patients. Therefore, this research aims to improve the environmental quality of treatment spaces with the approach of reducing patients' stress.
Materials and methods: Based on the research approach, descriptive-analytical has been done. The selection of the research sample in the General Surgery Department (Imam Reza Birjand Hospital) is considered. To collect data, a questionnaire (patient, patient's companion, doctor and staff) was used to prioritize the variables. The validity of the questionnaire was checked by 3Smart PLS software, and the reliability was measured by Cronbach's alpha. Then the collected data was analyzed in SPSS 26 software.
Results: The results of this study showed that the prioritization of different criteria from the physical factors of the indoor environment of therapeutic spaces including: convenience, flexibility, nature, light, color, fresh air, sound, texture, furniture arrangement, works of art, and scent are different. It is meaningful. Based on the Kruskal-Wallis test, the most significant difference in the patient's stress reduction priority is the criteria of color, material and texture, fresh air, scent. Based on the Yeoman-Whitney test, gender has a significant difference in the variables of scent, color and fresh air.
Conclusion: The results of the research identified that flexibility, convenience, nature, according to the descriptive statistics, have the most influence in reducing the stress of the patients from the perspective of all the participant. Design solutions with the approach of reducing patient stress in medical centers are presented based on the significance of most variables.
