Issues in Mental Health Nursing On Stress and Coping Mechanisms

This survey based descriptive research has been undertaken in Tirunelveli District, Tamilnadu to foresight coping strategies being followed by nurses to deal with stress, to differentiate coping strategies being followed by the nurses working in different departments and to examine the relationship between demographic variables and coping strategies. The structured format of coping strategies established by Folkman and Lazarus has been used in this study to analyze coping styles of nurses. It has been analyzed under five dimensions namely positive and action focused coping, wishful thinking and positive reappraisal, distancing, escape and avoidance and seeking social support coping. The study has sampled 360 nurses qualified with Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery and Bachelor of Science in Nursing courses from 45 general types of private hospitals using stratified random sampling technique. Weighted average method has been applied to analyze sources of stress. Mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation have been used to rank and differentiate the dimensions of coping strategies. Kruskal Wallis test has been administered to examine the relationship between coping strategies and demographic variables. The result indicated that positive and action focused coping is the foremost coping strategy being followed by nurses. Wishful thinking and positive reappraisal and seeking social support strategies are the next foremost strategies. Seeking social support and escape and avoidance strategies are the least strategies followed by nurses. All five dimensions of coping strategies have been perceived at medium level by majority of the nurses.

Croatian nursing journal

Introduction. Stress is a state of tension that arises when events or requests from the environment are assessed as threatening or too demanding. in the process of coping, we use different cognitive and behavioral strategies. problem-oriented coping involves strategies aimed at changing or removing stressors. emotion-focused coping encompasses stress-induced arousal management strategies. no coping strategy is universally effective, but the success of coping is assessed in the interaction of an individual’s characteristics and a stressful situation. The prevalence of individual coping patterns among nurses may depend on their workplace.Aim. To determine nurses in the internal medicine and surgical departments of two croatian hospitals cope with stress.Methods. The participants were 163 nurses from the internal medicine and surgical departments of the Sisak general Hospital “dr. Ivo Pedišić” and the general Hospital Karlovac. The measuring instruments used are the Questionnaire on ho...

2018

The nursing profession has been known as a stressful profession that influences the quality of health care delivery and patient safety. In nursing, occupational stress such as workload and organizational factors including leadership are the major factors of causing stress among nurses. Therefore, it is important to enhance the workforce quality of nurses. Effective stress management and coping strategies are essential steps to produce nurses’ work achievement and to reduce/control the level of stress among nurses. the aim of this study was to reveal the causes of stress among nurses and coping strategies that could be used in controlling and managing stressful events to build the awareness and the knowledge among nurses and nursing students about the stress, its causes, and the way to reduce or cope with it once it occurs. The literature review has been used for this study. Transactional Model of stress and coping by (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) was the used theory for this study. Indu...

Psychological Reports, 2015

The psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations-Short Version (CISS-SV-21 items) were tested. In a group of 1,291 hospital-based nurses (77.8% women), four alternative factor models of the CISS-SV were tested using confi rmatory factor analysis (CFA). The four models were: M1, the original CISS-SV-21 items three-factor model corresponding to three dimensions (task-oriented, emotion-oriented, and avoidance-oriented coping); M2, the four-factor model corresponding to four dimensions (task-oriented, emotion-oriented, contact a friend-oriented, and treat oneself-oriented) of the CISS-SV (21 items); M3, the three-factor model of the CISS-SV (20 items) made up by the same factor structure of M1 without including Item 1; fi nally, the four-factor M4 of the CISS-SV (20 items), consisting of the same dimensions of the M2 model without including Item 1. The results of the CFA showed that the M4 factor model was the model that was best able to account for the data (RMSEA = 0.06, 90% CI = 0.05,-0.06; CFI = 0.90). Reliability was supported by alphas ranging from .72 to .82. The CISS-SV has acceptable validity and reliability for measuring the coping strategies of nurses. Nursing is widely considered to be a stressful profession. Research conducted in several countries suggests that in recent years work stress among nurses escalated due to the increasing use of technology, changes in health care, and the increasing complexity of their work (Raff erty, Clarke, Coles, Ball, James, MeKee, et al ., 2007). Therefore, nursing work has become increasingly stressful, with rates of psychological distress ex

British Journal of Nursing, 2013

Stress is an important issue within nursing and it is difficult to find agreement among those who are expert in the area regarding a concise definition of stress. Nevertheless stress is seen as a negative feeling affecting people's health either physically and/or psychologically. However, stress is a normal part of life and considered necessary to increase functional capacity, whereas stress over a prolonged period or when extreme can cause distress which may have debilitating effects that reduce work output, increase absenteeism and reduce one's ability to cope with situations. The most important resource in any organisation is the employee; therefore maintaining and supporting their health is vital to ensure their ability to work, maintain standards and continuously improve standards of care. Leadership styles within organisations must facilitate staff to be involved in decision making; thereby staff feel more valued and work in an autonomous way. This article identifies and discusses the effect of stress on health and its relationship to nursing.

Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research

Stress is one of the most important areas of human understanding. When we understand how individuals react under extremes of stress, many of the more subtle and unstretched forms of behavior will be immediately understandable. Stress is the reality of life, but contrary to popular understanding, stress is not always a bad thing. Indeed, the capacity to adapt to and respond to various conditions of existence can be a definition of life itself [1]. According to APA's 2015 stress report in the USA, 78% of the population reported that they experienced stress symptoms [2]. Stress was named as "health epidemic of 21st century" by the world health organization [WHO] [3]. Stress is defined as "an attack that threatens the existence of organisms with all kinds of factors and the reaction of the organism to this attack". Stress has been the subject of research by many of the researchers and it has been tried to be defined with different expressions. Research and evaluations explaining the relationship between stress and human were made by Hans Selye for the first time. The term stress was defined as "nonspecific response of the body to any demand and these responses may be acceleration in the heartbeat, dry mouth, tremor, restlessness, excessive fatigue" by Selve [4]. According to Cüceloğlu, stress is "the effort an individual spends beyond the physical and psychological limits due to the inconvenient conditions in the physical and social environment [5]. All people feel stressed. In response to emotional or physical stress,

Siddhant - a journal of decision making, 2016

This survey-based qualitative descriptive research has been undertaken in Tirunelveli city, Tamilnadu to understand and differentiate coping strategies being followed by nurses working in both multi-speciality and single-speciality hospitals to deal with stress and to examine the relationship between demographic variables and coping strategies. The structured format of coping strategies established by Folkman and Lazarus has been used in this study to analyse and differentiate coping styles of nurses. It has been analysed under five dimensions namely positive and action focused coping, wishful thinking and positive reappraisal, distancing, escape and avoidance and seeking social support coping. The study has sampled 120 (60 from multi-speciality hospitals and 60 from single-speciality hospitals) nurses qualified with Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery and Bachelor of Science in Nursing courses. Mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation have been used to rank and differentiate the dimensions of coping strategies. Kruskal-Wallis test has been administered to examine the relationship between coping strategies and demographic variables. The result indicates that there is no marked differences in the perception of the nurses working in both kinds of organisation towards majority of the coping strategies discussed under five dimensions of the Folkman and Lazarus coping strategies. The perception level of majority of the respondents working in both kinds of hospitals has been at medium level towards all coping strategies.

IP innovative publication pvt. ltd, 2019

Stress has been considered as a major issue of concern in 21 st century and this has been documented widely among the nursing students but the use of effective coping methods can facilitate them to return to a balanced state. Although the body of evidence is growing on stress over the world, there is very little in the literature to know the relationship between stress and coping among the nursing students of Assam. Researchers conducted this study by using quantitative approach and descriptive survey design among 120 students, selected by using proportionate stratified random sampling technique. Standard tools such as Perceived Stress Scale and Coping Response Inventory were used to collect the data. Data were analyzed by using Software SPSS 16.0 version. Study results showed that majority (70.00%) of the students had moderate stress, 64.5% of students had average coping. Results also showed that no significant associations of stress as well as coping were found with selected demographic variables. The results further revealed that there was positive correlation of stress with acceptance or resignation, emotional discharge and negative correlation with problem solving, cognitive avoidance and positive reappraisal. The study concluded that students need to learn effective stress management techniques and healthy coping strategies in order to reduce the stress as well as maintains overall wellbeing.

Croatian nursing journal, 2021

Homeostasis is important for maintaining balance and normal functioning of the organism. Allostatic mechanisms further help to establish this balance. If the body is under stress for a longer period, a complex condition in the body called allostatic load occurs. If such a load lasts longer, the risk of developing diseases increases significantly. This study was conducted anonymously with the aim of determining the health status of male and female nurses in the Neuropsychiatric hospital “Dr. Ivan Barbot” in Popovača and their exposure to everyday stressors in the workplace. The main purpose was to examine the relationship between stress and the health status of nurses in relation to gender, age, and seniority. A total of 142 nurses participated. The Health Questionnaire and Workplace Stress Questionnaire were used. The results showed that the most common diseases nurses suffer from are cardiovascular diseases, thyroid diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, and allergies. Women showed h...

Introduction. Stress is a common phenomenon in human life. It results from a variety of stressors and experiences. Stress may be accompanied by negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, anger or aggression. The exposure to stress, in turn, may lead to physiological and biochemical changes in human organism. Aim of the study. The objective of the study was to assess the intensity of stress experienced by nursing staff working in intensive care units and to examine its influence on nurses' health behaviours. Materials and methods. The study was carried out in a group of 100 nurses working in anaesthesiology and intensive care units of the University Hospital in Cracow. The following research tools were applied in the study: a self-designed questionnaire, Health-Related Behaviour Inventory and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10). A statistical analysis was carried out with the application of Stat Soft programme. The significance level in the analyses was assumed at the value of p<0.05. Results. The results of the study show that 86% of the examined nurses experience stress at work. Statistically significant correlations were observed between the intensity of perceived stress and general health behaviours (p=0.002; r=-0.30). The higher stress nurses experience, the less attention they pay to health behaviours. Conclusions. Nurses working in intensive care units are exposed to numerous stress-inducing factors (sudden or difficult intubation, reanimation). As a result of stress nurses do not follow proper health behaviour routines, which may be detrimental to their health. The respondents tend to follow proper health behaviour routines as far as proper eating habits and positive mental attitude are concerned. However, they care very little about proper preventive measures.