Ansiedade e depressão entre profissionais de enfermagem que atuam em blocos cirúrgicos

Abstract

Estudo descritivo, correlacional, tipo corte transversal cujo objetivo foi avaliar a ansiedade e a depressão entre profissionais de enfermagem do Bloco Cirúrgico. Participaram 211 trabalhadores de enfermagem de onze hospitais da cidade de Londrina-Paraná, Brasil. A coleta de dados ocorreu nos meses de abril a novembro de 2007, utilizando-se um questionário para caracterização sócio-demográfica e profissional e a Escala Hospitalar de Ansiedade e Depressão (HADS). A maioria dos participantes era de auxiliares de enfermagem (62,6%), do sexo feminino (86,7%), casados (54,0%), com idade média de 40 anos. No geral, os trabalhadores apresentaram média de 6,3 para ansiedade e 5,2 para depressão em um intervalo possível de zero a 21. Contatou-se diferença estatisticamente significante para a ocorrência de ansiedade segundo a presença de duplo vinculo empregatício e o tipo de instituição (p<0,05) e para a ocorrência de depressão segundo a presença de duplo vínculo empregatício (p<0,05).

Predictors of depressive symptoms among nurses of intensive care unit

“…3 It is characterized by variations of mood and perpetuation of depressive symptoms including need for isolation, despondency, sadness, fatigue, insomnia, concentration difficulties, anxiety, fear, guilt, slowness, apathy, alterations to judge the truth, alterations of appetite, and presence of negative and recurrent thoughts. [3][4][5][6] Affected individuals, family members, friends, and the community experience intense suffering. 7 This disease, 1 is considered a public health problem.…”

“…Depression is one of the three most prevalent psychic illnesses in these workers, who daily deal with human suffering, pain, Joy, sadness and need to offer help to those who require their care. 1,5,6 Understanding depression among nurses who work in intensive care unit, as well as the risk factors involved, is important for researchers working primarily in the area of worker health. 6 The literature shows the sickness of these professionals.…”

“…1,5,6 Understanding depression among nurses who work in intensive care unit, as well as the risk factors involved, is important for researchers working primarily in the area of worker health. 6 The literature shows the sickness of these professionals. In the first ten years and at the beginning of the second decade of the XXI century, researchers expanded their investigations in an attempt to understand the existence of an association between depressive symptomatology and its possible predictive factors, in an attempt to elucidate the relationships between these variables.…”

“…In the first ten years and at the beginning of the second decade of the XXI century, researchers expanded their investigations in an attempt to understand the existence of an association between depressive symptomatology and its possible predictive factors, in an attempt to elucidate the relationships between these variables. 1,[4][5][6] Most of the research published in this period on depressive symptomatology related to nursing was carried out involving all professional categories of this team (nursing auxiliaries, nursing assistants and nurses). However, it is important to investigate each professional category since the attributions are different between them and there may be differences in the presence of depressive symptomatology and in the relationships between variables according to category.…”

“…This study only addresses nursing assistants in intensive care units. 1,[4][5][6] The guiding question of this study was to analyze if in an intensive care unit work environment there are factors that can be considered predictors of depressive symptomatology in nurses. In addition to these characteristics, the study sought to identify the prevalence of depressive symptomatology in these individuals.…”