Tehran University of Medical Science , mohammadrezamovaghari@yahoo.com
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Introduction: occupational stress is the most common issues and Problematic in maintaining public health. Emotion-focused coping and timely is a Effective skills in the nursing profession. This study aim the effect of the emotion-focused coping program on occupational stress and maintenance general health in Nurses working in child care centers.
Methods: A quasi-experimental research was carried out with Pre- and post tests in the intervention and control groups. The study population were the nursing staff of Hazrat Masoomeh (AS) Hospital who were determined randomizing With available sampling, selected 45 members in each group. For data collection Was used of demographic information and general health questionnaire and Expanded Nursing Stress Scale. Training program during the sixth sessions in 2 hours for the intervention group was done and all nurses in two groups completed questionnaires before and one month after intervention and data were analyzed statistically by SPSS 22 .
Results: The results showed, that the mean stress and general health before the intervention, there was no statistically significant difference between the experimental and control groups. But between the stress and general health after the intervention, there was a statistically significant difference between experimental and control groups (P <0/001).
Conclusion: occupational stress and general health scores significantly reduced after the intervention, indicating the effect of emotion-focused coping is to promote public health nurses Therefore, emotion-focused coping programs is recommended to reduce stress in pediatric nursing education.
Kaffash Z, Movaghari M, Seyedfatemi N. Implementation of Emotion-focused coping program on occupational stress and maintain public health nurses working in Children Ward. IJNR 2017; 11 (6) :56-62 URL: http://ijnr.ir/article-1-1837-en.html