Occupational stress among doctors and nurses working in Saudi hospitals in the Eastern Province.

Psychological stress is one of the most important and widespread sources of disease, which results from several sources to which the individual is exposed, which cause pressures on him, including the occupational pressures resulting from some professions in which a person works, especially sensitive professions that are related to determining the fate, life, and profession of a person. The study Objectives: Building a scale of occupational stress experienced by doctors and nurses in Saudi hospitals. Identify On the occupational pressures of doctors and nurses working in Saudi hospitals. Identify On the occupational pressures of doctors and nurses working in Saudi hospitals according to the gender variable. Recognize On the occupational pressures of doctors and nurses working in Saudi hospitals according to the career progression variable. The results of the study showed: This result shows that there is no statistically significant difference in the professional pressures experienced by doctors and nurses according to the gender variable. The researcher believes that this result is due to the equal role in the tasks between male and female doctors and nurses, and there is no difference in work. The researcher explains this result because the periodic resident is at the beginning of his medical life and working in the health sector and does not have sufficient work experience to deal with the cases he treats, besides his transition from his life as a medical student to the life of a doctor in hospitals and facing many emergency and critical cases that are required of him determining the type of case and submitting a report to the senior resident doctor or specialist to assign the treatment, and this new change in the life of the periodic resident makes him most exposed to professional pressures in his work. The study recommends Emphasis on the psychological and social aspects of doctors and nurses working in hospitals. Organizing psychological courses and seminars related to the psychological and professional stresses of doctors and nurses. The Ministry of Health's attention is to work to provide modern medical equipment for diagnosis and medical operations. Activating the law of protection of the doctor and the sense of the doctor, psychological and security attention by the officials, which increases the performance of the doctor in his work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]