Department of Psychiatric Nursing, S.G.L. Nursing College, Semi, Jalandhar, Punjab
Online published on 6 May, 2016.
The stress and adjustmental problems are interrelated terms. So ‘Lazarus’ advocated a psychological view in which stress is “a particular relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as the exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being’’ that results in adjustmental problems.
To assess the stress related to adjustmental problems among staff nurses of control group and experimental group before intervention.
To assess the stress related to adjustmental problems among staff nurses of control group and experimental group after intervention.
To compare the stress related to adjustmental problems before and after the intervention among staff nurses of control group and experimental group.
To find out the association of stress related to adjustmental problems among staff nurses with their selected socio demographic variables.
Quasi Experimental(Non Equivalent Pre Test Post Test Control Group) design was used on 60 staff nurses of selected hospitals of District Jalandhar, Punjab by using convenience sampling technique.
The Pre test stress score in control group reveals that out of 30 samples, 16(53.3%) staff nurses had severe stress and 13(43.3) had moderate stress, where as in experimental group, 18(60%) staff nurses had severe stress and 12(40%) had moderate stress score. After implementation of relaxation technique on experimental group, the stress score was significantly reduced that was 18(60%) staff nurses had mild stress and 12(40%) had moderate stress. The significant mean difference was 19.502* in experimental group, at p<0.05 level of significance. Hence, it was concluded that relaxation technique was useful in reducing stress related to adjustmental problems among staff nurses. Education and income has impact on stress related to adjustmental problems among staff nurses
“Relaxation Technique”, “Stress related to Adjustmental Problems”, “staff nurses”, “selected hospitals”
