Assessment of Stress and Coping Among Nurses Who Work at Gondar University and Felege Hiwot Referral Hospitals, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
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2012-05
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: A survey of literatures on nurses reveals that although a great deal of research has been carried out relating to stress and coping in nurses internationally, the information in Ethiopia is yet limited.
Objective: This study was designed to determine Sources of occupational stress and coping strategies among nurses who are working at Gondar University and Felege Hiwot Referral Hospitals, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
Methodology: An institution based cross- sectional study was conducted from January to February, 2012 G.C among nurses who work at Gondar University and Felege Hiwot referral hospitals. For the purpose, a total of 268 Nurses were involved in the study. Sstandardized self administered questionnaires including Nursing Stress Scale and Ways of Coping Checklist were distributed among the nurses. In order to check the clarity of the
questionnaires, a pilot pre test was conducted on nurses in Debark Hospital, Debark Town. Then the survey was conducted immediately after amending the questioners based on the feedback from the pre test. Statistical analysis of the data were conducted using Statistical Package(SPSS 20) for the demographic profile of the participants, the frequency of the adopted coping strategies and the mean scores (and standard deviation) of sources of stress.
Analytical statistics were done to compare relationship among variables.
Result: The greatest proportion of respondents was women (59.7%), Orthodox (97.4%), age between 23-35(63.1%) years, had less than 5 years of experience (44%). The following stressors were identified: death and dying, work load, uncertainty regarding treatment of a patient, work
load. The most common strategy used by nurses was problem-solving and Seeking social support and Accepting responsibility and the strategy least used were escape avoidance. In this study large proportion of nurses used Problem-focused approaches but an emotion-focused strategy were generally less used.
Conclusion It was concluded that sampled nurses are stressed. They should be sent for courses on human behaviour, resource management, interpersonal relation, stress management and crisis interventions
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Stress,Nurses