Pai Shubha, Suvvari Praneeth, Kodisharapu Praveen Kumar, Rayani Basanth Kumar, Palat Gayatri
Pain and Palliative Medicine, Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Pain and Palliative Medicine, Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2025 Jan 7. doi: 10.1136/spcare-2024-005315.
Providing nursing care is a challenging job which may lead to serious effects on sleep quality, thereby leading to lower work productivity and reduced job satisfaction. Therefore, it becomes increasingly important to adopt effective and adaptive coping strategies to deal with day-to-day stress and to improve sleep.
This study aimed to assess the sleep quality of nurses and the coping styles employed by them to deal with the stressors at the workplace.
This cross-sectional study included (n=125) nurses working across different wards and intensive care units in two cancer hospitals. The sleep quality was assessed using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, while brief COPE was used to assess the coping styles. Stress was assessed using a Likert scale.
The results indicated that the majority of the nurses (59.2%) had poor sleep quality. However, most nurses employed problem-focused coping (70.4%) compared with emotion-focused (21.6%) and avoidant coping (8%). Poor sleep quality was found to have significant association with problem-focused coping (r0.27), emotion-focused coping (r0.25) and stress (r0.42). A thematic analysis of the responses resulted in the emergence of eight major themes causing stress including management issues, novelty of job, family stress, health, work-life balance, workload, interpersonal relations and career growth.
Poor sleep quality was observed in more than half of the nurses who participated in this study. This can be attributed to several reasons mostly relating to work stress. Thus, it becomes increasingly important to address these issues and provide adequate support on an organisational level to improve their psychological well-being.
提供护理服务是一项具有挑战性的工作，可能会对睡眠质量产生严重影响，从而导致工作效率降低和工作满意度下降。因此，采用有效且适应性强的应对策略来应对日常压力并改善睡眠变得越来越重要。
本研究旨在评估护士的睡眠质量以及他们应对工作场所压力源所采用的应对方式。
这项横断面研究纳入了（n = 125）在两家癌症医院不同病房和重症监护室工作的护士。使用匹兹堡睡眠质量指数评估睡眠质量，同时使用简易应对方式问卷评估应对方式。使用李克特量表评估压力。
结果表明，大多数护士（59.2%）睡眠质量较差。然而，与以情绪为中心的应对方式（21.6%）和回避应对方式（8%）相比，大多数护士采用以问题为中心的应对方式（70.4%）。发现睡眠质量差与以问题为中心的应对方式（r = 0.27）、以情绪为中心的应对方式（r = 0.25）和压力（r = 0.42）有显著关联。对回答进行的主题分析得出了导致压力的八个主要主题，包括管理问题、工作新颖性、家庭压力、健康、工作与生活平衡、工作量、人际关系和职业发展。
参与本研究的护士中，超过一半的人睡眠质量较差。这可归因于几个主要与工作压力相关的原因。因此，解决这些问题并在组织层面提供充分支持以改善他们的心理健康变得越来越重要。
