Affiliations 

  • 1 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Nursing and Rehabilitation, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Selangor, Malaysia
  • 2 Faculty of Medicines and Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatry, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Selangor, Malaysia
  • 3 Faculty of Medicines and Health Sciences, Department of Medicine, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Selangor, Malaysia
  • 4 King Hussein Medical Center, Amman, Jordan
  • 5 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isra University/Western Sydney University, Amman, Jordan
  • 6 School of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
J Adv Nurs, 2020 Nov;76(11):3123-3135.
PMID: 32856353 DOI: 10.1111/jan.14506

Abstract

AIMS: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of the stress management interventional program in reducing occupational stress and improving coping strategies among public health nurses.

DESIGN: A double-blind, cluster-randomized approach was used as a randomization method for this study to evaluate the stress management interventional program.

METHODS: A cluster-randomized controlled trial was carried out in eight comprehensive healthcare centres in Amman city, Jordan; four centres were randomly assigned to each experimental and control group. One hundred and seventy nurses were selected randomly from March 2019 - August 2019 and data were collected by using the Nursing Stress Scale & brief COPE over three data collection times. Both descriptive and inferential statistics (repeated measure ANOVA, Independent t test, and chi-squared) were used to answer the research questions of this study.

RESULTS: The results showed that both the levels of occupational stress and coping strategies were significantly different between the two study groups over the three data collection points (p 

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