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Variations in Salivary Stress Biomarkers and Their Relationship with Anxiety, Self-Efficacy and Sleeping Quality in Emergency Health Care Professionals
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 18, Issue 17, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 9277, p 9277 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021.
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Abstract
- Hospital healthcare workers of emergency departments (EDs) face a variety of occupational stressors on a daily basis. We have recently published that emergency professionals display increased salivary levels of α-amylase and dehydroepiandrosterone during the working day. The pattern of these markers may suggest a counteracting mechanism of dehydroepiandrosterone against the stress reflected by amylase increases. In order to verify this hypothesis, we have analysed different psychological aspects in the same group of healthcare professionals through different tests related to behaviours resulting from stress. These include the state-trait anxiety inventory, the self-efficacy test and the sleeping quality questionnaire. The tests were provided at the beginning of the working day and collected at the end. STAI scores (trait and state) were indicative of no anxiety. Self-efficacy scores were considered optimal, as well as those from the sleeping quality questionnaire. This is supported by the modest correlation between STAI scores and salivary levels of α-amylase and dehydroepiandrosterone. In conclusion, the emergency professionals of the studied hospitals seem to have adequate work management. Altogether it means that the stress generated during work performance is controlled, allowing a correct adaptation to the demanding situations undergone in emergency departments.
- Subjects :
- amylase
Health Personnel
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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Article
stress
Health care
medicine
Humans
Quality (business)
DHEA
Saliva
media_common
Self-efficacy
sleeping quality
Health professionals
business.industry
Stressor
healthcare professional
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
anxiety
Self Efficacy
humanities
Test (assessment)
emergencies
Trait
Anxiety
Medicine
medicine.symptom
Emergency Service, Hospital
business
self-efficacy
Biomarkers
Stress, Psychological
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16604601
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....af2ba8165d9c3ccd6add926b7187c715
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179277