Open AccessWorkload Status and Its Relationship with Job Stress in Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Ali Reza Yusefi,
Parnian Nikmanesh,
Shima Bordbar,
Mohammad Khammarnia,
Zahra Kavosi
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
̒ulūm-i bihdāshtī-i īrān
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2322-4797
DOI - 10.18502/jhs.v9i4.8214
Subject(s) - workload , covid-19 , pandemic , data collection , nursing , medicine , job stress , psychology , descriptive statistics , job satisfaction , statistics , computer science , social psychology , mathematics , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , operating system
Background and Purpose: Currently, the high prevalence of COVID-19 and increased workload in hospitals has posed a threat to the physical, mental, and emotional health of nurses. The present study was an attempt to investigate the workload and its relationship with job stress of nurses in COVID-19 reference hospitals in southern Iran.
Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted in 2021 on 431 nurses from COVID-19 reference hospitals in southern Iran. Data collection tools included the NASA workload and OSIPOW job stress standard questionnaires. Data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation coefficient in SPSS23 Software and at a significance level of 0.05
Results: The mean age and work experience of the nurses participating in the study were 31.03±5.23 and 6.42±4.61, respectively. The mean scores of the workload and job stresses were 83.64 ± 17.24 (of 100) and 236.68 ± 16.54 (of 300), respectively. Mental load dimension (85.81 ±19.31, of 100) among workload dimensions and role workload dimension (43.62 ± 19.14, of 50) among job stress dimensions had the highest mean score. Thus, there was found a statistically significant relationship between workload and job stress of nurses (P= 0.04, r= 0.19).
Conclusion: Workload and job stress of the studied nurses were estimated at a high level. There was a significant positive correlation between these two variables, and increasing workload resulted in an increase in job stress.