1. Cognitive changes in nurses working in intensive care units.
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Machado DA, Figueiredo NMA, Velasques LS, Bento CAM, Machado WCA, and Vianna LAM
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- Adult, Anxiety etiology, Anxiety psychology, Depression etiology, Depression psychology, Female, Humans, Male, Stress, Psychological etiology, Stress, Psychological psychology, Surveys and Questionnaires, Workforce, Workplace psychology, Workplace standards, Cognition, Intensive Care Units organization & administration, Nurses psychology
- Abstract
Objective: To measure the levels of stress, anxiety, and depression of nurses working in ICUs, relating them to levels of attention before and after 24 hours., Method: An observational, quantitative, analytical study with 18 nurses undergoing an inventory of stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as assessment of attention levels and psychomotor functioning., Results: Sixty-one percent showed positive for stress. Depression was observed in 33%; and anxiety in 99.9%. A strong correlation between stress and depression (ρ = 0.564 with p <0.05) and anxiety (ρ = 1 with p <0.05) was observed. There was a weak correlation between stress and task execution time in M2 (ρ = 0.055) for TMT A, a fact that did not occur in M0 (ρ = -0.249)., Conclusion: The study shows that the workload of the nurses working in 24-hour shifts in the ICU is correlated with high levels of stress, decreases in the attention process, and psychomotor decline.
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- 2018
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