Stressors, coping ability and stress level among intensive care unit personnel

• Main Author: Hartono, NoFirstName
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2006
• Subjects: Job stress; Intensive care units > Indonesia; Intensive care units; Counseling
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/151; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_doctoral/article/1150/viewcontent/CDTG004221_P.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The purpose of this study was to determine job stressors, coping ability and the stress level among intensive care unit personnel. It also aimed to look into the relationship between coping ability and stress level as well as between each of these variables and the following: characteristics of individuals (or behavior pattern), gender, age, education level, job longevity, and marital status. A survey questionnaire that contained two self-report questionnaires and one interactive video tape recorded interview were administered to 60 respondents from the intensive care unit personnel of Gatot Soebroto Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia. Sixteen of these consisted of ten nurses and six doctors, with three additional doctors as trainees. Based on the Statistical analyses that included Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Multiple Regression and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), results revealed that the most frequently cited stressors by the intensive care unit personnel were the work itself, especially the knowledge/science of intensive care medicine, the environment of and equipment in the intensive care unit, the workload in the intensive care unit attempts to balance work and home life such as financial income and recreation activities with the intensive care unit personnel, and friendly relationships at work either between peers or when communicating to the higher consultant, and lastly, relationship/communication with the patients families or their surrogates. There was a significant negative correlation between coping ability and stress level either singly or in combination with other predictors. Moreover, the only significant predictor which is educational level showed positive correlation to coping ability either singly or combination and has significant negative indirect effect on stress level. None of the other predictors were found to vi be significantly related to coping ability, although marital status has significant positive relationship to stress level singly but not as combination. The result of the theoretical framework which was tested by Goodness of Fit Index value 0.99 and p < 0.0001 in Structural Equation Modeling, revealed that it was only the education level that has significant positive relationship to coping ability and indirect significant negative relationship to stress level. In addition, coping ability has significant negative relationship to stress level.