Occupational stress of nurses working in the Academic-Related sectors

This study was primarily aimed to identify the levels of occupational stress (OS) in the nurses who work in academia. For this study, the OS levels were measured in nurses using factors such as gender (G) and the level of education (LE) such as Diploma, BA, MSc, or PhD. This research was performed dealing with 100 academic nurses (AN) in the General Hospital, Children's Hospital, and The Birth Center in Al-Qadisiyah province, Diwaniyah, Iraq during the year of 2016. To achieve the research objective and find a tool for measuring OS, researchers have adopted a measuring tool (Muslim) to psychological stress in those nurses. This tool was prepared in 2010 and presented to the Group of Experts in Psychology and Mental Health Scale consisted of finalized (38) and categorized into 7 fields. These fields are environment and services, relationship with fellow doctors and nurses, relationship with patients, relationship with visitors, relationship with official personals, Medical domain, and the field of psychotherapy. The results showed significant high stress in the studied nurses. The results revealed no significant differences in gender-based stress. Interestingly, there were significant differences in the OS via the LE in which the nurses holding diplomas (graduates of technical institutes) had OS more than graduates of universities. This study shows valuable information about the occupational stress and its significant correlation with certain factors such as the level of education.