@article{Pinto_Alves_Veiga-Branco_2023, title={Stress profile of urgency/emergency nurses in covid-19 context: professional determinants}, volume={2}, url={https://revistas.rcaap.pt/millenium/article/view/27652}, DOI={10.29352/mill0220.27652}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> Evidence reveals that urgency7emergency nurses developed stress problems in the Context of a COVID-19 pandemic.</p> <p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Study the relationship between the stress profile of urgency/emergency nurses in the COVID-19 context and professional an sociodemographic variables</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> Quantitative, descriptive correlational study with a cross-sectional approach, with a sample of 355 national nurses who work in urgency/emergency situations, mostly female (51.1%) and with a mean age of 39.25±8.89 years. AN anonymous questionnaire was used, consisting of sociodemographic and professional questions (ad hoc) and the Stress Perception Scale (EPS), adapted for the Portuguese population by Pais Ribeiro & Marques (2009).</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> The majority is a female sample (51.0%), aged between 36-50 years (51.3%), married (48.7%) and with a degree (38.9%), working in the public sector (85.9%), in the North (35.8%), in non-designated services (22.3%), with time of professional experience between 11-20 years (40.8%), have a CTFP-IT (58.6%), practice a rotating schedule (86.8%), with ≤35 hours/week (75.2%) and with the professional category of “nurse” (59.4%).</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> The average ranking values indicate a higher level of stress on the part of younger nurses (≤years), male, divorced, with a master’s degree, who work in the private sector, with more time of professional practice, followed by those who have between 21-30 years and those with 11-20 years of service and by nurses with a CIT; followed by those with CTFP-TRC and CCT. Nurses working in Lisbon and Tagus Valley region perceived a higher level of stress (p=0.001).</p> <p> </p>}, number={20}, journal={Millenium - Journal of Education, Technologies, and Health}, author={Pinto, Nuno Duarte and Alves, Vitor and Veiga-Branco, Maria Augusta}, year={2023}, month={Jan.}, pages={e27652} }