Wellness room as a strategy to reduce occupational stress: quasi-experimental study.

Autor: Jacques JPB; Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Residence in Perioperative Nursing. Londrina, Paraná, Brazil., Ribeiro RP; Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Postgraduate Program in Nursing. Londrina, Paraná, Brazil., Scholze AR; Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Postgraduate Program in Nursing. Londrina, Paraná, Brazil., Galdino MJQ; Universidade Estadual do Norte do Paraná, Connections. Bandeirantes, Paraná, Brazil., Martins JT; Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Postgraduate Program in Nursing. Londrina, Paraná, Brazil., Ribeiro BGA; Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Center for Health Sciences, Department of Nursing. Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
Jazyk: English; Portuguese
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de enfermagem [Rev Bras Enferm] 2018; Vol. 71 (suppl 1), pp. 483-489.
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0572
Abstrakt: Objective: To compare occupational stress levels of nurse staff working in the surgical unit before and after the intervention "wellness room".
Method: Quasi-experimental study with a sample of 60 nurse staff working in a surgical unit of a teaching hospital in the Southern Region of Brazil. The intervention was conducted in a room in the workplace for six months and consisted of sections of aesthetic care, relaxation, lectures and workshops to reduce occupational stress. Data were collected through the Demand-Control-Support Questionnaire before and after the intervention, and the comparative analysis was performed by the Wilcoxon test.
Results: After the intervention, there was a decrease in demand and an increase in control and in the social support received at work in all professional categories, but the differences were not statistically significant.
Conclusion: The intervention "wellness room" reduced occupational stress levels in the sample studied; however, it was not a significant decrease.
Databáze: MEDLINE