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Why so stressed? A comparative study on stressors and stress between hospital and non-hospital nurses
BACKGROUND: Stress, which can be attributed to household and workplace stressors, is prevalent among nurses. However, these stressors’ attribution may differ between hospital and non-hospital nurses. It is currently unknown whether there are significant differences in the sociodemographic and occupa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7780689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33390159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00511-0 |
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author | Muhamad Robat, Rosnawati Mohd Fauzi, Mohd Fadhli Mat Saruan, Nur Adibah Mohd Yusoff, Hanizah Harith, Abdul Aziz |
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description | BACKGROUND: Stress, which can be attributed to household and workplace stressors, is prevalent among nurses. However, these stressors’ attribution may differ between hospital and non-hospital nurses. It is currently unknown whether there are significant differences in the sociodemographic and occupational characteristics between hospital and non-hospital nurses which may potentially influence the type and magnitude of stressors, and subsequently the stress status. Therefore, this study aims to estimate the prevalence of stress and compare the roles of sociodemograhic characteristics, occupational profiles, workplace stressors and household stressors in determining the stress status between hospital and non-hospital female nurses in Malaysia. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly-selected 715 female nurses in Malaysia using pencil-and-paper self-reported questionnaires. RESULTS: The majority of participants were ever married (87.0%), having children (76.2%), and work in hospital setting (64.8%). The level of household stressors was generally similar between hospital and non-hospital nurses. However, hospital nurses significantly perceived higher level of workplace stressors. Shift work is significantly associated with higher level of household and workplace stressors among nurses in both groups. The level of stress was significantly higher among hospital nurses. Both household and workplace stressors explained about 40% of stress status in both hospital and non-hospital nurses. CONCLUSION: Hospital nurses are at higher risk of having stressors and stress as compared to non-hospital nurses, probably due to higher proportion of them involved in shift work. Hospital nurses should be given high priority in mitigating stress among nurses. |
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spelling | pubmed-77806892021-01-05 Why so stressed? A comparative study on stressors and stress between hospital and non-hospital nurses Muhamad Robat, Rosnawati Mohd Fauzi, Mohd Fadhli Mat Saruan, Nur Adibah Mohd Yusoff, Hanizah Harith, Abdul Aziz BMC Nurs Research Article BACKGROUND: Stress, which can be attributed to household and workplace stressors, is prevalent among nurses. However, these stressors’ attribution may differ between hospital and non-hospital nurses. It is currently unknown whether there are significant differences in the sociodemographic and occupational characteristics between hospital and non-hospital nurses which may potentially influence the type and magnitude of stressors, and subsequently the stress status. Therefore, this study aims to estimate the prevalence of stress and compare the roles of sociodemograhic characteristics, occupational profiles, workplace stressors and household stressors in determining the stress status between hospital and non-hospital female nurses in Malaysia. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted among randomly-selected 715 female nurses in Malaysia using pencil-and-paper self-reported questionnaires. RESULTS: The majority of participants were ever married (87.0%), having children (76.2%), and work in hospital setting (64.8%). The level of household stressors was generally similar between hospital and non-hospital nurses. However, hospital nurses significantly perceived higher level of workplace stressors. Shift work is significantly associated with higher level of household and workplace stressors among nurses in both groups. The level of stress was significantly higher among hospital nurses. Both household and workplace stressors explained about 40% of stress status in both hospital and non-hospital nurses. CONCLUSION: Hospital nurses are at higher risk of having stressors and stress as compared to non-hospital nurses, probably due to higher proportion of them involved in shift work. Hospital nurses should be given high priority in mitigating stress among nurses. BioMed Central 2021-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7780689/ /pubmed/33390159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00511-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Muhamad Robat, Rosnawati Mohd Fauzi, Mohd Fadhli Mat Saruan, Nur Adibah Mohd Yusoff, Hanizah Harith, Abdul Aziz Why so stressed? A comparative study on stressors and stress between hospital and non-hospital nurses |
title | Why so stressed? A comparative study on stressors and stress between hospital and non-hospital nurses |
title_full | Why so stressed? A comparative study on stressors and stress between hospital and non-hospital nurses |
title_fullStr | Why so stressed? A comparative study on stressors and stress between hospital and non-hospital nurses |
title_full_unstemmed | Why so stressed? A comparative study on stressors and stress between hospital and non-hospital nurses |
title_short | Why so stressed? A comparative study on stressors and stress between hospital and non-hospital nurses |
title_sort | why so stressed? a comparative study on stressors and stress between hospital and non-hospital nurses |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7780689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33390159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00511-0 |
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