COMPARISON BETWEEN ANXIETY AND STRESS LEVELS DISPLAYED BY AND PERCEIVED BY THE NURSING COLLECTIVE.
Abstract
Exploratory descriptive study carried out with 65 professionals of nursing of a private hospital in the city of São Paulo, in the period from May to June, 2004, that aimed at identifying and comparing the levels of those professionals´anxiety in the units of Emergency, Admission, Intensive Care Unit and Surgical Center and to evaluate the relation of the data obtained in the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) with the professionals' perception in relation to their stress and to the factors that influence its occurrence or not. It was possible to observe that the professionals of ER and SC present larger variations of the anxiety state in relation to the trait, suggesting that the professional activity developed in those sections influences in the levels of the professional´stress.Downloads
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