Daniel Aragão Machado1, Nébia Maria Almeida de Figueiredo1, Luciane de Souza Velasques2, Cleonice Alves de Melo Bento3, Wiliam César Alves Machado1, Lúcia Alves Marques Vianna4. 1. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Alfredo Pinto Nursing School, Postgraduate Program in Nursing and Biosciences. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Institute of Mathematics, Department of Quantitative Method. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 3. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Center of Biological Sciences and Health, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 4. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, School of Nutrition, Laboratory of Nutrition and Chronic-Degenerative Diseases Investigation. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To measure the levels of stress, anxiety, and depression of nurses working in ICUs, relating them to levels of attention before and after 24 hours. METHOD: An observational, quantitative, analytical study with 18 nurses undergoing an inventory of stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as assessment of attention levels and psychomotor functioning. RESULTS: Sixty-one percent showed positive for stress. Depression was observed in 33%; and anxiety in 99.9%. A strong correlation between stress and depression (ρ = 0.564 with p <0.05) and anxiety (ρ = 1 with p <0.05) was observed. There was a weak correlation between stress and task execution time in M2 (ρ = 0.055) for TMT A, a fact that did not occur in M0 (ρ = -0.249). CONCLUSION: The study shows that the workload of the nurses working in 24-hour shifts in the ICU is correlated with high levels of stress, decreases in the attention process, and psychomotor decline.
OBJECTIVE: To measure the levels of stress, anxiety, and depression of nurses working in ICUs, relating them to levels of attention before and after 24 hours. METHOD: An observational, quantitative, analytical study with 18 nurses undergoing an inventory of stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as assessment of attention levels and psychomotor functioning. RESULTS: Sixty-one percent showed positive for stress. Depression was observed in 33%; and anxiety in 99.9%. A strong correlation between stress and depression (ρ = 0.564 with p <0.05) and anxiety (ρ = 1 with p <0.05) was observed. There was a weak correlation between stress and task execution time in M2 (ρ = 0.055) for TMT A, a fact that did not occur in M0 (ρ = -0.249). CONCLUSION: The study shows that the workload of the nurses working in 24-hour shifts in the ICU is correlated with high levels of stress, decreases in the attention process, and psychomotor decline.
Authors: Aman Prasad; Alyssa M Civantos; Yasmeen Byrnes; Kevin Chorath; Seerat Poonia; Changgee Chang; Evan M Graboyes; Andrés M Bur; Punam Thakkar; Jie Deng; Rahul Seth; Samuel Trosman; Anni Wong; Benjamin M Laitman; Janki Shah; Vanessa Stubbs; Qi Long; Garret Choby; Christopher H Rassekh; Erica R Thaler; Karthik Rajasekaran Journal: OTO Open Date: 2020-08-07