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Quantitative work demands, emotional demands, and cognitive stress symptoms in surgery nurses.
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Quantitative work demands, emotional demands, and cognitive stress symptoms in surgery nurses.

  • Elfering A a Department of Work and Organizational Psychology , University of Bern , Bern , Switzerland.
  • Grebner S a Department of Work and Organizational Psychology , University of Bern , Bern , Switzerland.
  • Leitner M c Bern University of Applied Sciences , Health Division, Discipline of Physiotherapy , Bern , Switzerland.
  • Hirschmüller A d Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery , University Hospital Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany.
  • Kubosch EJ d Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery , University Hospital Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany.
  • Baur H c Bern University of Applied Sciences , Health Division, Discipline of Physiotherapy , Bern , Switzerland.
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  • 2016-06-22
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  • Psychology, health & medicine. - 2017
Patient safety
emotional abuse
mobbing
occupational stress
Adult
Cognition
Cross-Sectional Studies
Emotions
Female
Germany
Humans
Linear Models
Male
Middle Aged
Nurses
Occupational Stress
Patient Safety
Perioperative Nursing
Stress, Psychological
Surveys and Questionnaires
Switzerland
Workload
English In surgery, cognitive stress symptoms, including problems in concentrating, deciding, memorising, and reflecting are risks to patient safety. Recent evidence points to social stressors as antecedents of cognitive stress symptoms in surgery personnel. The current study tests whether cognitive stress symptoms are positively associated with emotional abuse, emotional- and task-related demands and resources in surgery work. Forty-eight surgery nurses from two hospitals filled out the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire in its German version. Task-related and emotional demands were positively related to cognitive stress symptoms. In a stepwise, multiple, linear regression of cognitive stress symptoms on task-related and emotional demands, emotional abuse and emotional demands were unique predictors (p < .05). Efforts to increase patient safety should address emotional abuse, emotional demands, and, therefore, communication and cooperation team climate in surgery personnel.
Language
  • English
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closed
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https://sonar.ch/global/documents/173339
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