Impact of Training Program about Occupational Stress on Decision Making among Teaching Staff Members in faculty of nursing at Suez Canal University.

Abstract

Background: Stress is an important issue within nursing teaching staff and itis difficult to find agreement among those who are expert in the area regardinga concise definition of stress. Nevertheless stress is seen as a negative feelingaffecting people's health either physically and/or psychologically. Stress anddecision making are intricately connected on the behavioral and the neurallevel; work stress has impact on teaching staff decision. The aim of the study:the study aimed to assess impact of occupational stress program on decisionmaking among teaching staff members. Research design: A quasi-experimental design was utilized in this study. Setting: the study wasconducted in the faculty of nursing at Suez Canal University. Subject: allteaching staff members working in 6 different scientific departments in theprevious study setting. Tools of the study: Three tools were used to conductthis study; tool (I): occupational stress questionnaire which was used to assessstress level, tool (II): observation checklist which was used to assessoccupational stressors and tool (III): decision making scale to assess decisionmaking steps; data was collected from beginning July 2017 December 2018.Results: The study revealed that about half of the studied group had high stresslevel in preprogram with a slight decrease in post immediate and a highdecrease in follow-up (12.3%). About two third of the studied group had madedecision steps preprogram with slightly increased in post program, andfollowed by high increased (91.3%) in follow-up. conclusion: There wasstatistically significant improvement in teaching staff occupational stress level,with significant improvement in decision making before and after theimplemented program, There was statistically significant relation betweeneffect of occupational stress on decision making among teaching staff members(P value=.004) Recommendation: Providing periodic training in effectivecognitive strategies concerning healthy stress reducers, and providingcomprehensive training courses about communication, conflict resolution andteam building to reduce occupational stress.Key words: Decision Making, Occupational stress, Teaching staff