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Comparison of Occupational Stress among Female Nurses and Female Members of the Medical Group in Chosen Training Hospitals in Isfahan
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M Moein   , M Adib Hajbaghery * |
| Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran. , adib1344@yahoo.com |
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| Introduction: Job stress is one of the most important factors in physical and psychological conditions in workers and reduces their efficiency. Job stress may affect physicians and nurses as major components of the healthcare system and therefore the quality of healthcare might be affected. Moreover, women are a vulnerable group in society. Therefore, this study aimed to compare job stress in female nurses and female members of the medical group in selected educational hospitals.
Methods: In this comparative study, 130 nurses and 70 female members of the medical group of the two teaching hospitals of Isfahan city (Alzahra, Noor and Ali Asghar) were randomly recruited. Inclusion criteria included being female, aged between 22 to 50 years, nurses with bachelor's degrees or higher, interns, residents and general practitioners (Specialist physicians are not included in the study). Data collection tools included hospital stress questionnaire (HSS) and demographic data form. Data analysis was performed using SPSS16 software. Descriptive statistics, Spearman correlation coefficient, Mann-Whitney U and Chi-Square testes were used.
Results: the mean stress score was 3.027±0.453 in female physicians and 2.923±0.326 in nurses, respectively (p=0.037). Mean scores of all stress subscales were significantly different in the two groups except for the three subscales of incompetence, role duality and relations with colleagues. In female nurses the biological agents subscale had the highest mean score (4.223±0.833), while the shift working obtained the highest mean score in the medical group (3.893±0.951).
Conclusion: This study shows that the mean of overall job stress score were significantly different among female nurses and female physicians. Moreover, mean scores of all stress subscales were significantly different in the two groups except for the subscales of incompetence, role duality and relations with colleagues. |
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| Keywords: Job stress, doctor, nurse |
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Received: 2015/07/14 | Published: 2015/07/15 | ePublished: 2015/07/15
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