Open AccessA Study on Work Stress, Stress Coping Strategies and Health Promoting Lifestyle among District Hospital Nurses in Taiwan
Author(s) -
Lee WeiLun,
Tsai ShieuntHan,
Tsai ChaoWen,
Lee ChiaYing
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of occupational health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 59
ISSN - 1348-9585
DOI - 10.1539/joh.11-0054-fs
Subject(s) - work stress , coping (psychology) , medicine , stress (linguistics) , nursing , psychology , gerontology , environmental health , work (physics) , clinical psychology , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , mechanical engineering
A Study on Work Stress, Stress Coping Strategies and Health Promoting Lifestyle among District Hospital Nurses in Taiwan: Wei‐Lun Lee, et al. Center for General Education, Tajen University, Taiwan—Objectives To determine work stress, and stress‐coping strategies, and to analyze their the relationships in order to improve health‐promoting lifestyle of nurses in Taiwan. Methods Three hundred eighty‐ive nurses who had work experience for more than 6 mo, were selected from four district hospitals in Kaohsiung and Ping Tung. We used a stratified cluster random sampling method for the selection. The nurses answered a self‐report questionnaire, which was categorized into four sections: personal background data, work stress, stress‐coping strategies, and health‐promoting lifestyle. Results The indings indicate work stress and the health promoting lifestyle of nurses are at a higher level, with stress‐coping strategies being at a medium level. Work stress and stress‐coping strategies were significantly and positively correlated. Professional relationships, managerial role, personal responsibility, and recognition of work stress and the responsibilities of a health‐promoting lifestyle were negatively correlated. Managerial role, personal responsibility, and organizational atmosphere of work stress as well as realization, an item of health‐promoting lifestyle, were negatively correlated. Recognition of work stress and stress management, items of health‐promoting lifestyle, were negatively correlated. Health responsibility, and self‐actualization, items of health‐promoting lifestyle, as well as stress‐coping strategies were negatively correlated. Nutrition, an item of health‐promoting lifestyle, and the support stress‐coping strategy was negatively correlated. Conclusions Nurses have greater work pressure and better work stress‐coping strategies, but worse health responsibility and realization of a health‐promoting lifestyle. We suggest hospitals build good relationships and appropriately increase employment of nurses through a good work atmosphere to achieve nurses' realization of a health‐promoting lifestyle.