Abstract
To evaluate stress, and to associate it with sociodemographic and clinical aspects of nurses from the Mobile Emergency Care Service. This is an observational, cross-sectional and quantitative study conducted with 123 nurses, who answered a questionnaire to assess sociodemographic and clinical variables, and the Job Stress Scale, which evaluates stress in the workplace. The results indicated that most of them were women, 20 to 40 years old, married, without another employment bond and with specialization course. They had low control and low demand at work and performed a passive work. Women reported passive work and high stress levels, while men were equally divided in active and passive work with low stress levels. Passive work is harmful to health and it is related to lack of autonomy, decision-making, and social support. It may lead to reduced ability to solve problems faced in daily work routine.
Highlights
Stress exerts a direct influence on personal and professional life of all individuals, and it may cause disruption in internal balance of the organism(1)
A new perspective of studies on worker’s health has highlighted absence of neutral relations between work and health/ disease process, reinforcing the conception that every productive activity has a potential to promote health or to produce disease, depending on how elements of organization and work process are configured and how they articulate with the subjective characteristics of the worker(3)
The characterization of the studied sample showed that the SAMU FD nurse team consisted of 91 (74%) women and 32 (26%) men, with 80 nurses (65.2%) aged between 20 and 40 years old, 78 nurses (63.4%) were married (63.4%), 104 (84.6%) with more than 4 years of work experience in the service, 81 (65.9%) without any other employment bond, 54 (43.9%) worked in the mobile service, 47 (38.2%) in fixed emergencies, such as Trauma and Neurocardiovascular Center, located at the Base Hospital from the Federal District, and Guara Emergency Center, at Guara Regional Hospital, and 22 (17.9) in regulation, management or teaching
Summary
Stress exerts a direct influence on personal and professional life of all individuals, and it may cause disruption in internal balance of the organism(1). It may have an external origin, related to the profession, disagreements, losses, or an internal origin regarding the individual’s way of being, beliefs, morals and way of acting. Workplace is the external factor that most relate to development of stress(2). Occupational stress has become one of the main causes of illness It is an important risk factor for the individual’s psychosocial well-being, directly affecting health and quality of life, resulting in poor performance, high turnover, absenteeism and violence in workplace(4). The Job Strain Model, developed by Karasek(5), has become a reference model
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