XXXX ' and Health Care Providers' Perception of Stressors in the Intensive Care Units.

@entity1 @entity1213 @entity158 @entity25
PURPOSE: The purposes of this study is first, to investigate intensive care @entity1 ' perceptions of stressors; second, to investigate the health care provider's perception of what constitutes a stressor from the @entity1 's perspective; and third, to describe how health care providers manage their @entity1 ' stressors. This was a mixed-methods study; the quantitative section replicated Cornock's 1998 study of stress in the @entity1213 ( @entity1213 ), with difference in sampling to include all health care providers in the @entity1213 , in addition to nurses. The qualitative section added information to the current literature by describing how health care providers manage their @entity1 's stressors. This article reports the quantitative findings of this study, as the qualitative section is presented in a separate article. BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE: It is important to describe @entity1213 @entity1 ' stressful experiences to assess @entity1 's stressors, provide holistic care to eliminate stressors, and provide feedback to health care providers. There is a need to describe the clinical practice related to stress perception and management of stressors in the critical care environment. METHODOLOGY: A mixed-methods comparative descriptive design was used for the quantitative section, and a phenomenological approach guided the qualitative section. Lazarus and Folkman's theory formed the bases for integrating all variables investigated in this study. The sample included 70 @entity1213 @entity1 and 70 @entity1213 health care providers. After consenting to participate in this study, subjects were given a demographic form and a paper-based tool, the Environmental Stressors graphic data form Questionnaire. Questionnaires were filled out by subjects anonymously in the @entity1213 and returned to the researcher in the same setting. FINDINGS: Descriptive statistics were analyzed using SPSS data analysis software. The top 3 most stressful items ranked by the @entity1 included "being in @entity158 ," followed by "not being @entity25 "; on the other hand, health care providers perceived "being in @entity158 " followed by "not being able to communicate" and "not being in control of yourself" as the top 3 stressors perceived by their @entity1 . IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: The findings of this study are crucial and may inform nursing assessments and care of the @entity1213 @entity1 . In addition, this information may encourage the @entity1213 staff to manipulate and redesign the @entity1213 environment to be less stressful. Also, the findings of this study guided the development of an @entity1213 stressor control policy.
