Stress experienced and coping mechanisms of emergency and non-emergency hospital personnel

• Main Authors: Agbunag, Geneveive Karen, Gregorio, Melissa, Prieto, Rochelle Valerie
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1996
• Subjects: Stress (Psychology); Coping behavior; Hospitals > Staff; Life change events; Hospitals > Emergency service; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/9071
• Institution: De La Salle University

In this study, the researchers sought to find out the relationship and interaction of the variables: location of work, type of work, type of hospital, gender, and years of practice on the level of stress of hospital personnel. They also aimed to determine the stressors that these personnel experience at work, its physical and psychological manifestations and the coping strategies that they use when exposed to stressful conditions. This study is both descriptive and correlational. The subjects consist of 480 doctors, nurses, and technicians from St. Luke's Medical Center and V. Luna General Hospital. These hospital personnel were given a standardized test, Index of Clinical Stress (ICS), in order to measure their level of stress. Utilizing an Ex-post facto design, forty-eight (48) respondents were scheduled for a follow-up interview about stressors, reactions to stress and coping strategies. From the study that was conducted, it was proved from the results of the ICS test that there is a significant difference on the level of stress between public and private hospital. At .05 level of significance, type of hospital was seen to have a significant interaction on stress. Also, the interaction of type of work and years of practice and type of hospital and gender and years of practice yielded significant results. All the other variables and their interactions have no significant effect on stress. The qualitative analysis dealt on the categories of the different stressors, physical and psychological reactions to stress and coping mechanisms used by hospital personnel.