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- Title
Emotional Intelligence and Occupational Stress Among Nursing Professionals in Tertiary Care Hospitals of Bangalore: A Multicentric, Cross-Sectional Study.
- Authors
Regy, Minitta M.; Ramesh, Naveen
- Abstract
Background: Nursing profession requires strength and resilience not just physically, but emotionally as well which requires them to adapt in stressful situations that they are often exposed to in their work environment. Objective: To determine the prevalence and associated factors of emotional intelligence (EI) and occupational stress (OS) among the nursing professionals from selected tertiary care hospitals in Bangalore, India. Methods: This was a multi-centric, cross-sectional study done among nurses with more than 1year of work experience and they were randomly selected from four tertiary care hospitals in Bangalore. The EI and OS were assessed using the Emotional intelligence scale (EIS) and Occupational Stress Index (OSI). Data was collected, both online and offline, owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The data was analyzed using SPSS v21.0 to calculate the mean, associations, and regression. Results: Out of the total 294, the mean age of the study participants was 27±4.92years. A total of 75 (25.5%) nurses had poor EI and 245 (83.3%) had moderate OSI. None of the participants had high OSI. There was a significant association between the severity grades of EI and OSI (P = 0.010) and a binary logistic regression showed that those staff with high EI had a lesser odd (OR 0.531, 95% CI 0.282-0.999) of developing occupational stress as compared to those with low EI. Conclusion: EI plays a significant role in reversing the effect of one's occupational stress. Thereby, the training curriculum should include skills and measures of resilience to facilitate their EI improvement.
- Subjects
INDIA; CROSS-sectional method; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; EMOTIONAL intelligence; HOSPITAL nursing staff; STATISTICAL sampling; LOGISTIC regression analysis; TERTIARY care; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; DISEASE prevalence; NURSING education; ODDS ratio; JOB stress; NURSES' attitudes; RESEARCH; CURRICULUM planning; DATA analysis software; CONFIDENCE intervals
- Publication
Indian Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 2024, Vol 28, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
0973-2284
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/ijoem.ijoem_93_23