Jurnal Teknologi Kesehatan
Vol. 17 No. 1 (2021): June

Nurse work stress causative factors during the new normal period of COVID-19 outbreak in D.I Yogyakarta Province

Maryana Maryana (Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta)
Sari Candra Dewi (Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta)
Abiyyu Naufal Susanto (Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta)
Aga Rahma Putri (Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta)
Ayunda Sekar Arum (Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta)
Titik Fajriyati Nur Khasanah (Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2021

Abstract

The prevalence of cases Covid-19 in the New Normal period is still high in the number, that matter affects nurses of work stress. These situations can affect the physical and mental health of nurses. This study aims to determine the relationship of demographic factors and factor additional stress during COVID -19 outbreaks with stress levels of nurses working on the new normal period COVID -19 in the Special Province of Yogyakarta. This type of study was descriptive correlative that aims to determine the relationship of demographic factors with the level of work stress nurses with applied a cross-sectional study design. The study located in the Yogyakarta Special Region Province with the implementation time started on July 1 - July 31, 2020. The samples of this study were clinical nurses who working in health care facilities during the new normal COVID-19 period in the Special Province of Yogyakarta. There were 595 nurses who sampled in this study. The Data collection techniques in this study were directly from the data source using an online questionnaire. . The further results of the research found that there are several factors that influence the work stress of nurses during new normal COVID-19 such as gender, type of health work facility in covid-19 pandemic era, types of nurses in handling covid-19 patients, and length of work (?=1.00). Besides other factors that also influence among them are age (?=0.06), level of education (?=0.40), and work units during the covid-19 pandemic(?=0.89). In order to reduce stress levels, nurses in the COVID-19 new normal era should promote self-evaluation, improve positive coping mechanisms, and improve the good quality of communication techniques in interpersonal relations, so that will facilitate the implementation of daily tasks that ultimately establish good cooperation to complete the task.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JTK

Publisher

Subject

Dentistry Health Professions Nursing Public Health

Description

Jurnal Teknologi Kesehatan (Journal of Health Technology), with registered number ISSN 0216-4981 (print) and 2613-9944 (online), is a scientific journal published by Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta. The journal is registered in the CrossRef system with Digital Object Identifier (DOI) prefix 10.29238. ...