scholarly journals LEVEL OF STRESS AND COPING AMONG NURSES WORKING AT HIGH RISK

THE GENESIS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ms. Ahila D L D L

ABSTRACT: A study to assess the level of stress and coping among 80 nurses working at high risk areas of selected CSI Hospitals of Kanyakurnari District was done using modified Expanded Nursing Stress Scale devised by American, National Nurses Association and modified Moo's Coping Inventory. 52.5% (42) of nurses were found to be severely stressed and 40% (32) nurses were found to be moderately stressed. Only 3.75 % (3) of nurses were having effective coping skills. The association between stress and selected demographic variables like Age, year of experience, type of wards and marital status was found to be significant with = 18.70; 20.23; 11.27; 10.04 at (p <0.05) level. The association between coping and selected demographic variables like age, year of experience and marital status was found to be significant, -14.55; 15.54; 6,54 at (p<0.05)level.

Author(s):  
Reena Barai ◽  
Hemant Sharma

The present studyassess the level of stress and coping skills among living with family v/s old age home senior citizens. with a view to develop information leaflet on stress and their coping skills in selected area at Raipur chhattisgarh. To conduct the study 100 senior citizen of family V/S old age home in Raipur.chhattisgarh were selected as sample. Inclusion criteria senior citizen more than 60 age old. The tool was selected Sterilized Perceived Stress scale and BRIEF COPE scale for data collection. Results reveal that after the completion of study that those are living in family are low stress compare of old age.


Dementia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1907-1926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla J Thompson ◽  
Nancy Bridier ◽  
Lesley Leonard ◽  
Steve Morse

More than 15 million Americans are providing care for a family member with Alzheimer’s disease. Family caregivers are faced with highly stressful experiences, using strong coping skills, and implementing critical decisions with little or no knowledge or information and with virtually no preparation or assistance. The need for research efforts to focus on caregiver stress, coping mechanisms, and informed decision-making skills spearheaded a theoretical framework to study the potential relationships between family caregivers’ types of stress, coping skills, and their decision-making efforts. Constructs of life event stress, role strain, self-concept stress, and coping stress were examined relative to 10 priority areas of decision-making identified by the national Alzheimer’s Association. A relational non-experimental research design was utilized. Caregivers completed four Likert-scale instruments with data analyzed using descriptive statistics and rank-order correlation procedures. Findings indicated varying levels of stress, strong family self-efficacy and high levels of coping skills contribute to critical decision-making.


SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 215824401982954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason A. Kaufman

The present study sought to investigate perceptions of stress and coping among public school principals. School principals are daily called upon to make decisions regarding a range of unscripted events. The position can be stressful, and stress is known to interfere with sound decision making. It was predicted that present samples of school principals would report a mean level of elevated stress. Contrary to expectations, school principals did not report an elevated level of stress. They instead reported an ostensibly effective reliance on problem-focused and emotion-focused coping skills. It remains unclear how the school principals developed such adaptive means for coping with the stress of leading schools. It is recommended that future research explore this question so that such skills may be transmitted to principals-in-training.


2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacalyn J. Robert-McComb ◽  
Andrew Cisneros ◽  
Anna Tacón ◽  
Rutika Panike ◽  
Reid Norman ◽  
...  

The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program (MBSR) of Kabat-Zinn includes a combination of sitting meditation, yoga, and walking; thus, movement is not emphasized primarily to induce a state of awareness. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a Mindfulness-Based Movement Program (MBM) in women on parameters of stress and coping; that is, in contrast to MBSR, MBM primarily emphasized yoga to cultivate awareness. This study investigated: (a) an objective measure of stress (the cortisol response to a laboratory stressor) following an 8-week MBM in year 1 participants only (n = 17; MBM group = 9; Control group = 8); (b) subjective measures of stress following an 8-week MBM in years 1 and 2 (n = 32; MBM = 16; C = 16); and (c) changes in coping style following an 8- week MBM in years 1 and 2 (n = 32; MBM = 16; C = 16). A mixed plot 2 (Group: TC or MBM) by 5 (Trial: Baseline, Stressor, Recovery 1, Recovery 2, and Recovery 3) repeated measures ANOVA was run for cortisol. Preliminary results indicated a strong trend towards a lowered cortisol response for the MBM group compared to the control group. A mixed plot 2 (Group: TC or MBM) by 2 (Time: Pretest, Post-test) repeated measures ANOVA was run for Spielberg's State Anxiety, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the Problem Focused Style of Coping Scale for the Suppressive, Reflective, and the Reactive Coping Style. There were significant main effects for time, group, and an interaction of time and group for Spielberg's State Anxiety and the Perceived Stress Scale. Significant differences were also found for time and the interaction of time and group for the Problem Focused Style of Coping for the Reflective Coping Style (p &lt; 0.05). In conclusion, results indicate positive effects of the MBM program on perceived measures of stress and coping style in women.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohreh Tavakoli ◽  
Ali Montazeri ◽  
Ali Asghar Farshad ◽  
Zahra Lotfi ◽  
Ismail Noor Hassim

BACKGROUND: Physicians are at risk of having high levels of stress which affect their performance. Finding the stressors and the coping skills to manage stress could be used to develop program to decrease stressful situation. No study has been done on Physicians' stress and coping in Iran. The main objective of this study is to find out the main stressors and coping strategies among Iranian Physicians working in hospital in Tehran-Iran.METHODS: A cross-sectional study was performed on 780 Physicians,using a questionnaire consisted of two sections ;The first section were the stressors which included 67 questions and The second section were The Brief COPE with 28-items for assessing a broad range of coping behaviors among respondents.RESULTS: A total of 1100 questionnaires were distributed to all the available Physicians in the hospitals selected. 780 Physicians returned complete questionnaires with observed response rate of 75%. The majority of respondents (56.9%) were women. The first 3 sources of stress in workplace (Job stressors) are physical environment problem (75%), too much volume of work and poorly paid. The main sources of stress outside the work place (non-job stressors) ranked by Physicians were; financial problem (9.09), not enough time to spend with family (8.87), conflicts with household tasks (7.36).The top five coping strategies used by Iranian Physicians were Behavioral Disengagement, Planning, Instrumental support, Acceptance, and turning to religion.CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed that both workplace and non-job sources of stress can affect the Physicians performance and there is an association between gender and coping skills.


1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Naquin ◽  
Glen G. Gilbert

The purpose of this study was to examine college students' smoking behavior as well as their current smoking status and its effects on perceived levels of stress and coping styles. Students from four universities completed the Perceived Stress Scale, the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations and a smoking questionnaire. Of the 1330 students who participated in the study, 19 percent were current smokers. On the Perceived Stress Scale, current smokers' mean score was significantly higher than that of the students who had never smoked. In addition, the current smokers' mean score for Emotion-oriented Coping was significantly higher than that of the students who had never smoked or formerly smoked. The former smokers' mean score on Avoidance-oriented Coping was significantly lower than the never and the current smokers. Ten percent of the students smoked their first cigarette after high school, while 11 percent started to smoke on a daily basis after high school. Based on the findings, programs that focus on smoking prevention and cessation for college students are recommended.


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