Stressful life events in nurses of an Institution of second level of care, Veracruz, Mexico

Abstract

Introduction: environmental causes, psychic or social can generate stress in the individual and his family. These factors reach the category of stressful life events (AVE) when they are perceived as negative or unwanted and when accompanied by a vital change.

Objective: To analyze the stressful life events (AVE) in nurses of an institution of second level of care, Veracruz, Mexico.

Methods: A quantitative study with type of study, descriptive, cross-sectional, and correlational study. Non-probabilistic sampling for convenience, the sample was composed of 55 nurses, selected using the informed consent and voluntary participation. We used the Scale of stress or Social Readjustment of Holmes and Rahe that values 43 AVE, and an ad hoc questionnaire for data and labor issues. Statistical analysis of descriptive and inferential, type in the first frequencies, and percentages were obtained and the second used Ji² to get to the statistical significance (p) of the variables.

Results: Nurses in a 51% do not present major problems of stress, but the rest if you suffer a crisis of stress.

Conclusions: The variables maintain statistical relationship with the bird and the level of stress.