Abstract
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the association between socio-occupational characteristics, stress level, and quality of life in hospital Nursing workers. Method: a cross-sectional, quantitative study, with data collected by means of a socio-occupational questionnaire to survey the profile of the workers, the Bianchi Stress Scale to assess stress, and the WHOQOL-Bref to assess quality of life. Results: 180 Nursing workers participated in the research, being 49 nurses and 131 Nursing technicians and assistants, most of them women, predominantly aged up to 35 years old, married, and with up to three years of experience in the sector. In general, the participants presented medium stress level, with a higher level among the nurses, and greater satisfaction with the quality of life level related to the physical (65.6%), psychological (64.7%), and social relationships (67.9%) domains. This study identified significant associations between stress and quality of life in hospital Nursing workers. Conclusion: it was demonstrated that there was an association between stress and quality of life, and the greater the stress, the lower the quality of life in hospital Nursing workers.
Highlights
Health workers are subjected to occupational diseases of a physical and psychological nature, with considerable losses regarding the personal and professional goals due to exposure to various risks in the work environment.[1]The work dynamics in the hospital environment can contribute to the disease process, due to the inadequate working conditions and to the intense and exhausting routines to which the health workers are exposed, especially Nursing workers.[2,3]Stress is a modifiable risk factor which, associated with other disorders, can contribute to the development of chronic dysfunctions.[4]
Due to the little distinction between the work process and the activities performed by Nursing technicians/ assistants, it was decided to analyze these two professional categories together
The social relationships domain obtained the highest mean among the participants, demonstrating that personal and social relationships and family support are factors that favor Quality of Life (QoL), unlike the low mean values obtained in this domain in another study with Nursing workers, which related the results found to their incompatibility in reconciling work with participation in social activities.[22]
Summary
Health workers are subjected to occupational diseases of a physical and psychological nature, with considerable losses regarding the personal and professional goals due to exposure to various risks in the work environment.[1]The work dynamics in the hospital environment can contribute to the disease process, due to the inadequate working conditions and to the intense and exhausting routines to which the health workers are exposed, especially Nursing workers.[2,3]Stress is a modifiable risk factor which, associated with other disorders, can contribute to the development of chronic dysfunctions.[4]. Health workers are subjected to occupational diseases of a physical and psychological nature, with considerable losses regarding the personal and professional goals due to exposure to various risks in the work environment.[1]. The work dynamics in the hospital environment can contribute to the disease process, due to the inadequate working conditions and to the intense and exhausting routines to which the health workers are exposed, especially Nursing workers.[2,3]. Stress is a modifiable risk factor which, associated with other disorders, can contribute to the development of chronic dysfunctions.[4] Occupational stress results from stressors in the work environment and can cause physical and emotional exhaustion in the worker,[5] characterizing a complex and dynamic phenomenon, understood from different perspectives and associated with body fatigue and with sensations of anguish, feelings of tension, sadness, fragility, tiredness, and devaluation.[6]. A number of studies demonstrated the importance of the work environment in stress generation among the Nursing workers.[1,3]
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