Assessment of Occupational Stress, Job Satisfaction and Associated Factors Among Nurses In East Gojjam Zone Public Hospitals Northwest Ethiopia, 2016
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Occupational stress and job satisfaction are reported to be interrelated. Occupational
stress has been reported to affect job satisfaction among nurses, thus compromising nursing care and
placing patients’ lives at risk. Nursing has been identified and reported by a number of studies as a
stressful occupation. Occupational stress is a serious condition for nursing professionals that is
directly associated with impaired and inappropriate performance and working within clinical settings.
The low job satisfaction among nurses results negative outcome that affect both quality and cost of
patient care.
Objective: To assess the level of occupational stress, job satisfaction and associated factors among
nurses in East Gojjam Zone Public hospitals Northwest Ethiopia 2016.
Method: Institutional based Cross-sectional study design was used. Sampling method was simple
random sampling and data was collected from March 8 to 23, 2016. Source population of the study
were all nurses who work at public hospitals in East Gojjam zone public hospitals and sample size
was 181 nurses from the four hospitals. After nurses were proportionally allocated to size from the
four hospitals. Data were collected through pretested self administered structured questionnaire. Both
descriptive and inferential statistics were used to present the data
Results: Among the study participants 102(57.3%) of nurses were occupationally stressful. workload
subscale was the most sources of stress for nurses.Sex and work experience of respondents were
significantly associated with occupational stress. Overall average prevalence rate of job satisfaction
of this study was 54.2%, which was at moderate level. The most highly satisfied subscale for study
participants was nature of work. There was a significance mean difference of job satisfaction between
age groups, between sex of respondents and between nurses who had children and nurses who had no
children.
Conclusion and Recommendation: More than half of the nurses were occupationally stressful. The
average job satisfaction of nurses was at moderate level. There was a very weak negative but none
significant correlation between occupational stress and job satisfaction .The Amhara regional health
bureau and study hospitals should develop stress reduction management programs and financial and
non financial benefit packages should be balanced to increase job satisfaction among nurses.
Key Words: Occupational stress, Job satisfaction, Nurses
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Occupational stress, Job satisfaction, Nurses