Citation

Sailaxmi G, Lalitha K. Asian J. Psychiatry 2015; 14: 42-45.

Affiliation

Department of Nursing, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (INI), Hosur Road, Near Wilson Garden, Bangalore 560029, Karnataka, India.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ajp.2015.01.002

PMID

25703040

Abstract

Nurses caring for psychiatric patients may have to face violent emotions and unpredictable behaviour which can be quite stressful. A stress management program may equip nurses with skills to cope effectively with the stress. A one group pre-test and post-test design was adopted to test this hypothesis. Both gender nurses caring for psychiatric patients were invited to undergo 10 consecutive, one hour sessions of a stress management program. The DCL Stress scale (The De Villiers, Carson & Leary Stress Scale; Carson et al., 1997a,b,c) was used to collect data immediately after intervention and four weeks later. RM ANOVA with spss 16 showed that pre-intervention mean stress reduced significantly (p=0.000) from 57.45±16.42 to 41.06±16.51 immediately following the intervention and 26.43±12.82 (p=0.000) four weeks after the intervention. The stress management strategies positively impacted on nurses' stress levels.

Language: en