Nurses’ and nursing technicians’ occupational stress and coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.5216/ree.v26.75608Keywords:
Adaptation, Psychological, Burnout, Professional, Stress, Psychological, Nurse Practitioners, Coronavirus InfectionsAbstract
Objectives: to assess the factors that generate occupational stress among nurses and nursing technicians working in direct care for patients affected by COVID-19 during the pandemic and verify their relationship with coping strategies adopted by the nursing staff. Methods: an analytical cross-sectional study, carried out at a hospital in the countryside of the state of São Paulo. The convenience sample (n = 112) consisted of nursing professionals who answered the Nurses’ Stress Inventory and the Coping Responses Inventory for Working Settings. For inferential analyses, chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test, Mann-Whitney test and Spearman test were used (p < 0.05). Results: there was a high level of occupational stress in nurses (M = 106.0; SD ± 23.1) and nursing technicians (M = 98.5; SD ± 25.1), with higher scores among nurses for factors intrinsic to work compared to nursing technicians. Interpersonal relationships were the main source of stress. The coping strategies with the highest means were coping responses for both nurses (M = 43.2; SD ± 8.5) and nursing technicians (M = 41.4; SD ± 9.1). Conclusions: the identification of occupational stress factors and coping strategies and their repercussions at work brought important contributions to understanding the contextual reality.
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