A cross sectional study to assess physical and mental health status due to occupational stress of nursing staff at tertiary care centre of Central India

Dr Ragini Shrivastava; Dr Bhawna Bhimte

Volume : VI, Issue : III, March - 2017

A cross sectional study to assess physical and mental health status due to occupational stress of nursing staff at tertiary care centre of Central India

Dr Ragini Shrivastava, Dr Bhawna Bhimte

Abstract :

Stress is a fundamental inevitable experience of modern work. The role of nursing is associated with multiple and conflicting demands imposed by nurse supervisors, managers, medical and administrative staff. Chronic Stress may induce to health burden. Consistently high stress can become a chronic condition, which can exacerbate existing mental health conditions and chronic physical conditions (diabetes, hypertension, weak immune system).

It was a questionnaire based study comprised of 90 Nurses working at tertiary care centre for more than 10 years contrast to non-working female of identical age group.General examination ,anthropometric messurments, CMI were calculated of both the groups Occupational stress score was calculated of study group by using modified occupational stress score. In the study it was observed thatAccording to CMI health questionnaire evaluation 60% of Control group females were having good physical health in contrast to Study group females in which 58.8% showed poor physical health status. Similarly Mental health of control group was 100% good while study group was 84.44% poor . 63%nurses reported high OSS and 37% showed moderate OSS. Eventually the study showed that working Nurses to be on higher health risks than the non-working female. Study investigation data made apparent that nurses are more towards occupational stress.