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Stress in Emergency Healthcare Professionals: The Stress Factors and Manifestations Scale

Background: Healthcare workers are continuously exposed to a high level of stress, especially emergency department professionals. In the present research, we aimed to determine the internal consistency and validity of the Stress Factors and Manifestations Scale for in-hospital and out-of-hospital em...

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Autores principales: García-Tudela, Ángel, Simonelli-Muñoz, Agustín Javier, Rivera-Caravaca, José Miguel, Fortea, María Isabel, Simón-Sánchez, Lucas, González-Moro, María Teresa Rodríguez, González-Moro, José Miguel Rodríguez, Jiménez-Rodríguez, Diana, Gallego-Gómez, Juana Inés
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8998299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35410024
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074342
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author García-Tudela, Ángel
Simonelli-Muñoz, Agustín Javier
Rivera-Caravaca, José Miguel
Fortea, María Isabel
Simón-Sánchez, Lucas
González-Moro, María Teresa Rodríguez
González-Moro, José Miguel Rodríguez
Jiménez-Rodríguez, Diana
Gallego-Gómez, Juana Inés
author_facet García-Tudela, Ángel
Simonelli-Muñoz, Agustín Javier
Rivera-Caravaca, José Miguel
Fortea, María Isabel
Simón-Sánchez, Lucas
González-Moro, María Teresa Rodríguez
González-Moro, José Miguel Rodríguez
Jiménez-Rodríguez, Diana
Gallego-Gómez, Juana Inés
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description Background: Healthcare workers are continuously exposed to a high level of stress, especially emergency department professionals. In the present research, we aimed to determine the internal consistency and validity of the Stress Factors and Manifestations Scale for in-hospital and out-of-hospital emergency workers. Methods: A quantitative, prospective, cross-sectional, and observational study including 269 emergency service professionals. Results: The scale was composed of 21 items, with a Cronbach’s α value of 0.908. The hospital workers (38.4 ± 10.8 vs. 35.1 ± 9.9, p = 0.014) and women (39.3 ± 11.4 vs. 34.2 ± 8.6, p < 0.001) had higher levels of stress. The sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of the scale were adequate. Conclusion: In the present study, including in-hospital and out-of-hospital emergency workers, the Stress Factors and Manifestations Scale presented appropriate usefulness, internal consistency, and validity, with optimal predictive ability. Higher levels of anxiety, female gender, being less optimistic, and working in hospital emergency departments were related to increased stress levels. Further studies are warranted to validate our results and potentially extend the Stress Factors and Manifestations Scale to other contexts.
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spelling pubmed-89982992022-04-12 Stress in Emergency Healthcare Professionals: The Stress Factors and Manifestations Scale García-Tudela, Ángel Simonelli-Muñoz, Agustín Javier Rivera-Caravaca, José Miguel Fortea, María Isabel Simón-Sánchez, Lucas González-Moro, María Teresa Rodríguez González-Moro, José Miguel Rodríguez Jiménez-Rodríguez, Diana Gallego-Gómez, Juana Inés Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: Healthcare workers are continuously exposed to a high level of stress, especially emergency department professionals. In the present research, we aimed to determine the internal consistency and validity of the Stress Factors and Manifestations Scale for in-hospital and out-of-hospital emergency workers. Methods: A quantitative, prospective, cross-sectional, and observational study including 269 emergency service professionals. Results: The scale was composed of 21 items, with a Cronbach’s α value of 0.908. The hospital workers (38.4 ± 10.8 vs. 35.1 ± 9.9, p = 0.014) and women (39.3 ± 11.4 vs. 34.2 ± 8.6, p < 0.001) had higher levels of stress. The sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of the scale were adequate. Conclusion: In the present study, including in-hospital and out-of-hospital emergency workers, the Stress Factors and Manifestations Scale presented appropriate usefulness, internal consistency, and validity, with optimal predictive ability. Higher levels of anxiety, female gender, being less optimistic, and working in hospital emergency departments were related to increased stress levels. Further studies are warranted to validate our results and potentially extend the Stress Factors and Manifestations Scale to other contexts. MDPI 2022-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8998299/ /pubmed/35410024 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19074342 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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González-Moro, María Teresa Rodríguez
González-Moro, José Miguel Rodríguez
Jiménez-Rodríguez, Diana
Gallego-Gómez, Juana Inés
Stress in Emergency Healthcare Professionals: The Stress Factors and Manifestations Scale
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