Occupational Stress Among a Cancer Hospital Nurses
Kama Azida KAMARULZAMAN1, Syazwan Syah ZULKIFLY2, Nor Halim HASAN2

1 Department of Health Perak , 30000 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

2 Department of Occupational Safety and Health Negeri Sembilan, 70000 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

Page 12 – 20   |   Vol. 2 No. 3 (2017)  |    Available online on 1 December 2017

Abstract

Hospital nurses receive enormous amounts of physical and mental workload which causes them to develop work-related stress. In this research, a cross-sectional study was carried out to identify the level of perceived stress, and also to investigate the relationship between occupational stressor and perceived stress level among one hundred and eighty two (n=182) nurses in a cancer hospital. Data collection was done using a self-administered questionnaire consists Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). Based on the results obtained, majority of the nurses perceived high level of stress and six variables namely “workload”, “death and dying”, “inadequate preparation”, “lack of staff support”, “conflict with physician” and “conflict with other nurses” have relationship with occupational stress. The relationship between “uncertainty concerning treatment by physician” and “perceived stress” was found to be absent. NSS explained 19.7% of PSS and “inadequate preparation” as well as “conflict with physicians” the most influential factors towards perceived stress among nurses. For future research, this study is suggested to be expanded to a greater sample of nurses in other hospitals to obtain better conclusion and generalisation.

Keywords

NSS, PSS, Occupational Stress, Nurses

Acknowledgement

We would like to express our gratitude to lecturers from School of Business Management, Human Resource Department, Universiti Utara Malaysia for their guidance on conducting this research. Sincere gratitude also conveyed to all respondents who took part in this research and to all parties who are involved indirectly in assisting this research.

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