Chaudhuri A, Ray M, Saldanha D, Bandopadhyay Ak
Department of Physiology, Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, Burdwan (Affiliated to West Bengal University of Health Sciences), West Bengal, India.
Department of Anesthesiology, Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, Burdwan (Affiliated to West Bengal University of Health Sciences), West Bengal, India.
Ann Med Health Sci Res. 2014 Sep;4(5):791-5. doi: 10.4103/2141-9248.141573.
Increasing population, fast paced industrialization, increased, competitiveness, unanticipated problems in the work place have increased the stress among the females working in health care in recent times.
The aim of the following study is to detect the stress levels among female health care professionals in the age group of 25-35 years and its impact on health.
A prospective cross-sectional pilot project was conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Eastern part of India, after receiving approval from the Institutional Ethics Committee and informed consent form was taken from the subjects. Stress level in the subjects was assessed according to the presumptive life event stress scale. Females with scores above 200 were selected. For these, initial assessment of anthropometric measurement, electrocardiogram and lipid profile analysis, resting pulse rate, blood pressure, physical fitness index (PFI), breath holding time (BHT), isometric hand grip (IHG) test results were evaluated and recorded. All subjects were given training of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) for 3 months. After 3 months, the lipid profile and vital parameters, Perceived Stress Scale values were re-evaluated and subjects were asked to repeat the same exercises and data thus recorded were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16 (SPSS Inc. Released 2007. SPSS for Windows, Version 16.0. Chicago, SPSS Inc.).
Significant decrease in resting heart rate, blood pressure and Perceived Stress Scale levels was seen after PMR training in the subjects. Results of BHT, IHG tests and PFI were significantly increased after PMR training. There was a significant decrease in total cholesterol, triglyceride and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in subjects after practicing PMR for 3 months.
Increasing stress among female health care professionals is a cause for concern and there is a need to adopt early life-style modification by practicing relaxation exercises to ameliorate stress and to improve not only their quality-of-life in general, but patient care in particular.
近年来，人口增长、快速工业化、竞争加剧以及工作场所出现的意外问题增加了女性医护人员的压力。
以下研究的目的是检测年龄在25 - 35岁的女性医护人员的压力水平及其对健康的影响。
在获得机构伦理委员会批准并征得受试者知情同意书后，于印度东部的一家三级护理医院开展了一项前瞻性横断面试点项目。根据推定生活事件压力量表评估受试者的压力水平。选择得分高于200的女性。对这些女性，评估并记录其人体测量、心电图和血脂谱分析、静息心率、血压、身体素质指数（PFI）、屏气时间（BHT）、等长握力（IHG）测试结果的初始评估情况。所有受试者接受了为期3个月 的渐进性肌肉松弛（PMR）训练。3个月后，重新评估血脂谱和生命体征参数、感知压力量表值，并要求受试者重复相同练习，使用社会科学统计软件包（SPSS）16版（SPSS公司。2007年发布。适用于Windows的SPSS，版本16.0。芝加哥，SPSS公司）对记录的数据进行分析。
受试者在接受PMR训练后，静息心率、血压和感知压力量表水平显著下降。PMR训练后，BHT、IHG测试和PFI结果显著提高。在进行3个月的PMR训练后受试者的总胆固醇、甘油三酯和低密度脂蛋白胆固醇显著降低。
女性医护人员压力不断增加令人担忧，需要通过进行放松练习尽早改变生活方式，以减轻压力，不仅改善她们的总体生活质量，特别是改善患者护理。
