Occupational stress in employees of a unit of internment of a trainee-hospital - DOI: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v7i1.4912

Abstract

Occupational stress is a result of an anti-symmetrical relation between the employees and their jobs, and it can cause some personal distress, in a family and at work as well. This present study has the purpose to identify the levels of stress in employees from a unit of internment of a trainee-hospital. “Job Scale Stress” was used in a version adapted to portuguese as Escala de Estresse no Trabalho that contains seventeen questions to evaluate the dimensions - psychological demand, control (intellectual discernment and authority) and social support. It is a descriptive study, with quantitative analysis of the data. Participated of the research 59 employees. The results have demonstrated high score on demand and control and low score on social support dimensions, what indicates a psychological suffering and stress. It was concluded that, it is necessary the inclusion of new strategies, and improvement on the ones already existent, to reduce the employees level of stress.