Abstract
Introduction:Occupational stress is one of the major problems of health care staff, substantially affecting their professional and personal performance. This research has been conducted with the aim of determining the effect of stress management on occupational stress and satisfaction among the Midwives in Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital wards at Motahari Hospital in Jahrom, Iran 2013-2014.Methods:This is a Quasi-experimental study of the pre- and post-clinical trials type. The study population included midwives employed in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital wards selected trough census. The samples were categorized into two groups randomly. The intervention group participated in the short-term training workshop of stress management. The studied samples were measured in terms of occupational stress and satisfaction before, right after, and one month after the workshop. Occupational stress measurement was measured by Toft-Anderson occupational stress questionnaire (1981). Similarly, the occupational satisfaction was measured by JDI checklist developed by Stephen Robins (1994). In order to analyze the information, SPSS 16 together with descriptive statistics tests (frequency, percentile, mean, and standard deviation), independent sample t-tests, iterative measurement and Spearman correlation coefficient were used.Results:A total of 70 people (two 35-person groups) of midwives participated in this study. The findings revealed that there was a significant difference between the mean of scores of occupational stress between the two groups before and after the workshop (p=0.001). There was, however, no significant difference between the scores of satisfactions across the two groups.Discussion:Training of skills of coping with stress including stress management can be effective in diminishing level of occupational stress. Mitigation of stress without catering for professional, occupational, organizational, and environmental factors would not lead to development of job satisfaction.
Highlights
Occupational stress is one of the major problems of health care staff, substantially affecting their professional and personal performance
The findings revealed that there was a significant difference between the mean of scores of occupational stress between the two groups before and after the workshop (p=0.001)
Training of skills of coping with stress including stress management can be effective in diminishing level of occupational stress
Summary
Occupational stress is one of the major problems of health care staff, substantially affecting their professional and personal performance. Stress is a psychological state or process, by incidence of which a person is subject to events that are perceived as threatening to their physical and psychological well-being. Stress originates from interaction with the environment and occurs when there is a mismatch between the occasional pressures and the resources the person owns (Hossini & Hossini, 2012). High levels of stress follows several implications including physical and psychological diseases such as anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, restlessness, irritability, dementia, abnormal fatigue, reduced resistance and susceptibility to frequent infections, headache, reduced concentration, memory disorders, and decreased levels of problem-solving abilities (Craine et al, 2010).
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