Programa de intervención para disminuir el estrés Laboral en el personal de enfermería del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso Cuenca 2011

Abstract

Background: Stress is one of the major health problems from workers in many fields. Nowadays, the nurse, have high stress levels, due to a lot of factors such as: social, occupational and familiar, reducing the performance of care activities to the patients even personal activities. Goal: To implement an intervention program to reduce work stress in the nursing staff from the Cuenca’s Hospital “Vicente Corral Moscoso” Methods and materials: A quasi-experimental studio was proposed between March 2011 and January 2012. The main group was composed by nurses and nursing assistants from Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital. Epi Info software was used to calculate the sample’s size (53 nurses for each group), adding 10% of loss estimate. Data were collected in previously validated forms; the information was processed in SPSS and Excel. Results: 120 persons were taken in a random way, 60 from the experimental group and 60 from control group, in the intervention group, 84.5% were women and 3.4% men and the average age was 47 years old. In the experimental group the participants were 41.1% of Nurses and 58.8% were Nursing assistants. Before the intervention the study groups were statistically similar. The stress level in the intervention group decreased about 19.61% and making the Tpariada test, the null hypothesis was ratified with a P value of 0.005