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REVISTA LATINO-AMERICANA DE ENFERMAGEM
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 24-28Publisher
UNIV SAO PAULO, ESCOLA DE ENFERMAGEM DE RIBEIRAO PRETO
DOI: 10.1590/S0104-11692008000100004
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adaptation; psychological; nursing; stress; medical oncology
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In the oncology specialty, many factors can result in occupational stress in nursing professionals. As an attempt to controlling this situation, individuals may use coping strategies. Coping is a cognitive and behavioral effort one uses to face a stressful situation, The aims of this study were to identify the stressful factors regarding oncology nurses, and to verify what coping strategies they use. Two questionnaires were used: a demographic data inventory, designed by the researcher, and the Folkman and Lazarus coping strategies inventory. The results showed that the main stressful factors for oncology nurses are patient death (28.6%), emergency situations (16.9%), relationship issues with the nursing team (15.5%), and work-process situations (15.5%). In the studied population, the main coping strategy used was positive reappraisal.
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