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The Effects of Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management on Nurses’ Job Stress

BACKGROUND: Job stress is a prevalent and costly problem in different working conditions. Stress can degrade care quality in nurses and elevate their willingness to leave the job. This study aimed to determine the effects of cognitive-behavioral stress management on nurses’ job stress. MATERIALS AND...

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Autores principales: Shariatkhah, Jafar, Farajzadeh, Zahra, Khazaee, Kolsoom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5637151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29033997
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1735-9066.215683
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Farajzadeh, Zahra
Khazaee, Kolsoom
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description BACKGROUND: Job stress is a prevalent and costly problem in different working conditions. Stress can degrade care quality in nurses and elevate their willingness to leave the job. This study aimed to determine the effects of cognitive-behavioral stress management on nurses’ job stress. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this quasi-experimental study with a control group, 40 nurses from the educational hospitals in Birjand who had completed a job stress questionnaire with a score of more than 100 were selected and randomly allocated to two groups. The intervention group underwent eight 2-hour sessions training of cognitive-behavioral stress management (one session per week), whereas the control group had no such training. Two months after the training, the two groups completed the hospital job stress questionnaire again. The data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 19) by Chi-square, Fisher exact test, independent t-test, and paired t-tests at 0.05 significance level. RESULTS: Stress mean score and standard deviation before and after the intervention were 3.48 (0.22) and 2.8 (0.2) in the intervention group and 3.48 (0.21) and 3.56 (0.2) in the control group, respectively. In the intervention group, the overall mean scores of stress and its dimensions significantly decreased after the intervention (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Given the significant decrease in the nurses’ stress using cognitive-behavioral stress management, this approach can be suggested to be taught to nurses in hospitals in order to decrease their stress and increase their efficiency.
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spelling pubmed-56371512017-10-13 The Effects of Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Management on Nurses’ Job Stress Shariatkhah, Jafar Farajzadeh, Zahra Khazaee, Kolsoom Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: Job stress is a prevalent and costly problem in different working conditions. Stress can degrade care quality in nurses and elevate their willingness to leave the job. This study aimed to determine the effects of cognitive-behavioral stress management on nurses’ job stress. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this quasi-experimental study with a control group, 40 nurses from the educational hospitals in Birjand who had completed a job stress questionnaire with a score of more than 100 were selected and randomly allocated to two groups. The intervention group underwent eight 2-hour sessions training of cognitive-behavioral stress management (one session per week), whereas the control group had no such training. Two months after the training, the two groups completed the hospital job stress questionnaire again. The data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 19) by Chi-square, Fisher exact test, independent t-test, and paired t-tests at 0.05 significance level. RESULTS: Stress mean score and standard deviation before and after the intervention were 3.48 (0.22) and 2.8 (0.2) in the intervention group and 3.48 (0.21) and 3.56 (0.2) in the control group, respectively. In the intervention group, the overall mean scores of stress and its dimensions significantly decreased after the intervention (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Given the significant decrease in the nurses’ stress using cognitive-behavioral stress management, this approach can be suggested to be taught to nurses in hospitals in order to decrease their stress and increase their efficiency. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5637151/ /pubmed/29033997 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1735-9066.215683 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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