[The development of an occupational stress management tool for psychiatric nurses]

The purpose of this study is to propose the baseline data for developing the occupational stress measurement tool for Psychiatric nurses Working in the hospital. 135 staff nurses in psychiatric unit of 11 hospital were participated during the period from August 1 to August 20, 1988. Though the pretest and literature review a questionnaire was constructed with 88 stressors which were experienced by the psychiatric nurses in the hospital. Subjects were given instruction to rate 1-6 likert type scale according to the level of stress experienced by each stressor described. Reliability of the tool was tested by Cronbach's Alpha and the result was alpha = 0.94871. Factor analysis was applied to organize 88 items together. As the result, 14 factors were obtained. The factors were; 1) Administration problem. 2) Work overload. 3) Role conflict as a profession. 4) Lack of professional knowledge and skill. 5) Conflict with nurses. 6) Conflict with other health teams. 7) Conflict in nurse-client relationship. 8) Conflict with supervisor. 9) Conflict with subordinate. 10) Low reward. 11) Scheduling problem. 12) Inappropriate physical environment. 13) Staff inadequate. 14) Inadequate of equipment.