Abstract
Emotional distress is associated with irrational beliefs, psychopathological conditions, and maladaptive behaviors. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of rational-emotive distress management intervention -REDMI on work-related emotional distress among primary healthcare workers -PHCWs in Nigeria. A pretest-posttest randomized control group design was adopted by the investigators. Using convenient sampling procedure, 52 PHCWs were studied. These participants were assigned to either treatment (n=26) or control (n=26) groups respectively. Only the treatment group received rational-emotive distress management intervention. The profile of emotional distress –PED (internal consistency=0.94) was used for the pretest and posttest data collection. The IBM SPSS version 22 was employed for all statistical data analysis. The study participants in treatment group scored lower (10.87±2.63) in the posttest measure when compared to pretest scores (18.24±2.88). This implied that REDMI was effective in managing work-related emotional distress in a sample of primary healthcare workers in Nigeria. The REDMI is effective in managing work-related emotional distress among PHCWs in Nigeria. Professionals and experts in emotional health are therefore encouraged to adopt management intervention programs such as REDMI in helping workers and clients to manage emotional distress.Emotional distress is associated with irrational beliefs, psychopathological conditions, and maladaptive behaviors. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of rational-emotive distress management intervention -REDMI on work-related emotional distress among primary healthcare workers -PHCWs in Nigeria. A pretest-posttest randomized control group design was adopted by the investigators. Using convenient sampling procedure, 52 PHCWs were studied. These participants were assigned to either treatment (n=26) or control (n=26) groups respectively. Only the treatment group received rational-emotive distress management intervention. The profile of emotional distress –PED (internal consistency=0.94) was used for the pretest and posttest data collection. The IBM SPSS version 22 was employed for all statistical data analysis. The study participants in treatment group scored lower (10.87±2.63) in the posttest measure when compared to pretest scores (18.24±2.88). This implied that REDMI was effective in managing work-related emotional distress in a sample of primary healthcare workers in Nigeria. The REDMI is effective in managing work-related emotional distress among PHCWs in Nigeria. Professionals and experts in emotional health are therefore encouraged to adopt management intervention programs such as REDMI in helping workers and clients to manage emotional distress.
Highlights
Worldwide, emotional distress is common among workers (Nwikina & Nwanekez, 2010; Ogungbamila, 2012; Olorunsola, 2013)
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of rational-emotive distress management intervention -REDMI on work-related emotional distress among primary healthcare workers -PHCWs in Nigeria
The present study attempted to investigate the effect of rational-emotive distress management intervention on work-related emotional distress among primary healthcare workers in Nigeria
Summary
Emotional distress is common among workers (Nwikina & Nwanekez, 2010; Ogungbamila, 2012; Olorunsola, 2013). High level of emotional distress is associated with irrational beliefs, psychopathological conditions, and maladaptive behaviors (Turner & Barker, 2013). It holds huge effect on the worker’s job satisfaction and productivity level as well as emotional stability. While functional distress like sadness corresponds to conventional negative reactions to any form of stressful event, the dysfunctional distress corresponds to other important emotional health problems such as depression (DiLorenzo, David, & Montgomery, 2011). The authors further explained that dysfunctional distress involving negative thoughts and maladaptive feelings usually precede functional distress as observed in depression involving sadness. Researchers maintained that irrational beliefs from the rational-emotive perspectives, sustain emotional distress (David & Szamoskozi, 2011)
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