Assesing work-related stressors among nurses in the Philippines: a case study of a secondary hospital in Los Baños Laguna

Date

2019

Adviser

Trisha Jasmin DM. Cañeda

Abstract

This study assessed the stress levels of thirteen nurses working at a secondary hospital in Los Baños, Laguna in context with various work-related stressors. The Expanded Nursing Stress Scale questionnaire was used to identify their stress levels according to 9 subcategories, and determine the major causes of occupational stress among nurses. Descriptive statistics were used in tabulating stress levels for each subcategory. Results showed that the stress levels of the nurse-respondents on all subcategories range from occasionally to frequently stressful. Most respondents experienced frequent and extreme stress under the Patients and their Families subcategory while majority experienced frequent stress under Problems with Supervisors subcategory. Furthermore, one-on-one interviews, focused on patient control and management of the hospital, with six selected nurses were conducted to determine reasons for their resulting major stressors. Understaffing and multi-tasking of activities were the main reasons for their identified major stressors, as well as problems in transferring inadmissible cases to tertiary hospitals for better patient treatment. The study also determined relationships between socio-demographics and the stress level scores of the nurse-respondents for each subcategory using Spearman's Rank-Order Correlation. Results showed that most associations provide weak to very weak positive monotonic relationships among variables which may be attributed to the small deviations between ages, good salary and benefits of the nurses. Based on overall findings, the nurse respondents' stress levels are affected by patient control, management of the hospital, and high salary. The study recommends that future researches and the hospital itself look into the feedback of patients regarding the services of the hospital and conduct an in depth analysis from the perspective of the management.

Language

English

LC Subject

Capstone

Location

University of the Philippines Rural High School

Document Type

Capstone

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