When a study says:
"The age of RNs was associated with high levels of psychological distress"
How do I know whether it's younger or older RNs who had higher distress from the study tables?
because the study didn't explain the stats. Here is the study link: Article Experienced time pressure and stress: electronic health reco...
Please help. Thanks
We have touched upon this question in our paper Impact of gender and age on attitudes towards mental illness in Sweden
- December 2012
- Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 67(5)
- DOI: 10.3109/08039488.2012.748827
- The full text is here on RG.
Due to the fear of getting old and the decrepitude that senescence usually brings, ALL OF THIS COMBINED WITH AN EXCESSIVE FEAR OF DEATH (All of this can generate what is known as "Involutive Depression")
Here you may get some benefits
Article The relationship between age, gender and psychological distr...
It depends on how you have measured age, if you have measured actual age, then older resident nurses experience more stress, if you have age measured as a categorical variable, then, category for which the max code is given will experience high stress levels
Thank you all.
P C Gita ... and Alvin Vista vey helpful answers, straight to the point.
Studies on burnout (and other types of Anxiety and On Stress) and age, in Nurses and in all Health Personnel (HP), teachers, etc. they note that there is an "inverted U" relationship -according to the Yerkes-Dodson Law-, so that at a lower age OF PROFESSIONAL EXERCISE- it has not yet made a dent, since its harmful effects are cumulative; However, after a certain age they do appear, but up to an age limit, after which it tends to decrease significantly, either because adequate Coping Strategies have been developed, which cushion it, or because the subject has developed Pathology that They have forced him to abandon professional practice, even due to "labor disability", or because "motu proprio" they have changed Profession or direct and face-to-face practice with patients, users, etc. which is what "burns the most" opting for administrative or other tasks. Let's not forget that according to the World Labor Organization (WLO) Nursing is one of the professions with the most abandonment in the world
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(...)or direct and face-to-face practice with patients, users, etc. which is what "burns the most" opting for administrative or other tasks. Let's not forget that according to the World Labore Organization (WLO)
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