[Anxiety and depression among nursing professionals who work in surgical units]

Rev Esc Enferm USP. 2011 Apr;45(2):487-93. doi: 10.1590/s0080-62342011000200026.
[Article in Portuguese]

Abstract

This descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational study was performed with the objective to evaluate anxiety and depression among nursing professionals working in Surgical Units. Participants were 211 nursing professionals from eleven hospitals of Londrina-Paraná, Brazil. Data collection was performed between the months of April and November 2007, using a questionnaire for the socio-demographic characterization of the professionals and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Most participants were nursing aides (62.6%), female (86.7%), married (54.0%), and in average 40 years old. Overall, the workers average score for anxiety was 6.3 and 5.2 for depression in an interval from zero to 21. A statistically significant difference was found for the occurrence of anxiety for cases of holding two jobs and the type of institution (p<0.05) and for the occurrence of depression for cases of nurses holding two jobs (p<0.05).

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anxiety / epidemiology*
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Depression / epidemiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Nursing*
  • Occupational Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Surgery Department, Hospital*