Effectiveness of Positive Affirmation Therapy on Level of Stress and Job Satisfaction among Staff Nurses working in Hospitals of Selected Areas.

Abstract

Nurses work in various units in hospitals they having various level of stress and job satisfaction job related stress and job satisfaction is an important issue in nursing profession. Many times we are facing many emergencies, in that situation we are unaware about further complications in that, something it happens unnecessarily stressful situation and we fell in trouble. As there many researches done to assess the level of stress and job satisfaction among staff nurses in different settings and locations. Stress in staff nurses is common issue among nurses; few experiments were carried out on positive affirmation therapy on staff nurses. So here researcher used positive affirmation therapy to reduce stress and improve job satisfaction level among staff nurses. It shows that positive affirmations are very useful to reduce stress and improve job satisfaction level in staff nurses.

Material and method: Quasi-experimental, nonequivalent, control group designs with quantitative research approach was used. Accessible population is staff nurse working in hospitals of selected areas. 60 samples were taken by non-probability convenient sampling techniques. They were divided in two groups as 30 in control and 30 in experimental group. A descriptive inferential statistics is used to analyses the data.

Result:  In pre-test 37% staff nurses were having moderate stress, 63% were having severe level of stress, but in post-test 73% staff nurse has mild stress 27% has moderate stress. So it shows that after intervention experimental group’s level of stress reduced. In consideration to the level of job satisfaction, In pre-test 27% staff nurses were satisfied and 73% staff nurses were dissatisfied, as compare to pre-test score post test score is high. In post-test 70% staff nurses are very satisfied 30% found to be satisfied

There was no association found between level of stress with demographic variables like gender, area of job and clinical experience, as well as level of job satisfaction with selected demographic variables.

Conclusion: Comparative study between pre-test and post-test level of stress and job satisfaction among experimental and control group shows positive affirmation therapy is effective to reduce level of stress and improve level of job satisfaction among staff nurses working in hospitals.