Occupational stress in nursing technicians that work in a specialized clinic in extracorporeal renal treatment from Recife city in Pernambuco

Estresse ocupacional  em profissionais técnicos de enfermagem que atuam em uma clínica especializada em tratamentos renais extracorpóreos na cidade de Recife em Pernambuco

Cristiano do Nascimento Siqueira1*, Valdenilson Ribeiro Ribas2, Rosângela Nieto de Albuquerque3, Cristina Reis de França4, Maria Aparecida  Saturnino da  Silva4, Sabrina Meirelle Alves Cintra4,  Carlos Antonio de Sá Marinho5, Valéria Ribeiro Ribas6, Luciano da Fonseca Lins7, Raul Manhães de Castro8.

ABSTRACT

Nursing was classified by the Health Education Authority as the fourth most stressful profession in the public sector. Objective: the objective of this work was to evaluate  stress in Nursing technicians of a clinic of the private sector. Methods: the subjects were 69 Nursing technicians, being 60 female and 09 male subjects. The stress evaluations were accomplished  by the Lipp’s Inventory of Stress Symptoms (LISS). The data  were analyzed by the Fisher’s Exact and Chi-square  tests and expressed in percentile. Results: the largest percentile of stress was 53.33%  for the female nursing  technicians;  regarding  the  symptoms, there was a  predominance of the psychological  ones,  above  all, among   the  female  nursing  technicians  that  presented  33.33%.   In relation  to  the  stress phases,  there  was  a predominance in the resistance phase  with 40.66%  among  the female nursing technicians and 11.11%  among  the male technicians and 6.66% of the female nursing technicians were still found in the phase  of almost-exhaustion or exhaustion.  Conclusion: