Effects of professional benefit recognition to stress coping of tuberculosis nurses / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effects of professional benefit recognition to stress coping of tuberculosis nurses. Methods A total of 82 tuberculosis nurses were assigned into experimental and control groups by random digits table method with 41 cases each. The experimental group was given four times of professional benefit recognition interventions in additional to regular training, while control group was just given regular training. The two groups were asked to complete the Professional Benefit Recognition questionnaires and Stress Coping Style questionnaires before the intervention and 1 month after the intervention, respectively. Results Before the intervention, the scores of the Professional Benefit Recognition questionnaires and Stress Coping Style questionnaires between two groups had no significant difference (P>0.05). After the intervention, the Professional Benefit Recognition questionnaires scores of experimental group increased from ( 2.93 ± 0.40) points to (3.81±0.38) points that was significantly better than that of control group(2.99±0.39) points, and there were significant differences (t=49.337,-60.834, P<0.05). The immature and mixed Stress Coping Style questionnaires scores of experimental group self- accusation, illusion, avoidance, rationalization were (0.51 ± 0.13) , (0.51 ± 0.24), (0.56 ± 0.21), (0.51 ± 0.16) points, which were significantly lower than before the intervention (0.70 ± 0.09), (0.65 ± 0.10), (0.67 ± 0.14), (0.67 ± 0.08) points and that of control group (0.63 ± 0.16), (0.65 ± 0.18), (0.68 ± 0.18), (0.64 ± 0.13) points, with the difference being significant (t=-4.071--2.541, P<0.05). The mature coping scores of the experimental groupproblem solving, appealing were (0.70 ± 0.10), (0.67 ± 0.13) points, which were significantly higher than that of control group (0.63 ± 0.12), (0.58 ± 0.15) points and that of experimental group before the intervention (0.55 ± 0.12), (0.51 ± 0.11) points, with the difference being significant (t=2.308, 2.098, P <0.05). Conclusions Professional benefit recognition interventions can improve professional benefit recognition and stress coping style, is beneficial to nurses' physical and mental health and nursing quality.