Stress level in nursing professionals in a hospital center during the COVID-19

Asencios-Trujillo L.; Asencios-Trujillo L.; Rosa-Longobardi C.L.; Gallegos-Espinoza D.; Piñas-Rivera L. · Health Leadership and Quality of Life (2024) · DOI: 10.56294/hl202445

Resumen

Stress is any psycho-emotional tension experienced by nursing professionals during the coronavirus pandemic, therefore, the objective of the investigation is to determine the level of stress in nursing professionals in a hospital center during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional and non-experimental study, with a population of 127 nursing professionals, who completed a sociodemographic data questionnaire and the nursing stress scale. In their results, 12,6 % (n=16) of nurses have high stress, 40,9 % (n=52) medium stress and 46,5 % (n=59) low stress. In conclusion, programs aimed at mental health, training in resilient skills and coping strategies for stress must be created.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle