Nurses coping with daily stressors
Cite this dataset
Martínez-Zaragoza, Fermín et al. (2020). Nurses coping with daily stressors [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8pqv
Abstract
Background: During their workday, nurses face a variety of stressors that are dealt with using different coping strategies. One criticism of the contextual models of work stress is that they fail to focus on individual responses like coping with stress. Neverthless, little is know about the momentary determinants of coping in nurses.
Objectives: To identify the momentary predictors of problem-focused approaching coping and emotion-focused approaching coping, as well as those for seeking social support and refusal coping strategies, during the working day in nurses.
Design: This study uses descriptive, correlational, two-level design with repeated measures.
Settings: Wards of two University hospitals.
Participants: A random cohort of 113 nurses was studied.
Methods: An ecological momentary assessment was made of demand, control, effort, reward, nursing task, coping, mood and fatigue, and of coping style by questionnaire. Multilevel two-level statistical analyses were performed in order to identify both within person and between person relationships.
Results: Different momentary types of coping were associated with different tasks. The problem-focused coping could be explained by the direct care and medication tasks, demand, planning coping style, mood, and negatively by acceptation coping style. Emotion-focused coping could be explained by documentation and medication tasks (negatively), mood, demand, distraction, and disengagement coping styles. Seeking social support coping could be explained by the task of communication, mood, fatigue (negatively), and seeking emotional support as a coping style. Refusal coping could be explained by mood, and the coping style of focusing and venting emotions. Refusal coping is not specific to any task.
Conclusions: The choice of the coping strategy depends on the task, of their appraisal and on the different styles of coping.
Methods
Data were collected from two university hospitals in Spain.
Data is in long format. It is processed for multilevel analysis.
Database is in R format.
Usage notes
Variables' description:
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Person |
Person ID |
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Moment_total |
Number of registered times |
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Day |
Day of assessment: 1-5 |
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Moment |
Moment of assessment: 1-5 |
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Mood |
Self-rated, ecological momentary assessment, mood (from 1: negative mood to 5: positive mood) |
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Fatigue |
fatigue, ecological momentary assessment (from 1: less fatigue to 5: more fatigue) |
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Demand |
Self-rated, ecological momentary assessment, demand (1-5). From less to more perceived |
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Effort |
Self-rated, ecological momentary assessment, effort (1-5). From less to more perceived |
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Control |
Self-rated, ecological momentary assessment, control (1-5). From less to more perceived |
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Reward |
Self-rated, ecological momentary assessment, reward (1-5). From less to more perceived. |
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Problem |
Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) of Problem-coping in binary |
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Emotion |
EMA of emotion-coping in binary |
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Support |
EMA of seeking social support-coping in binary |
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Refusal |
EMA of refusal coping in binary |
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Num_coping |
Times the coping has been used in binary |
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Hospital |
Code of hospital |
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Gender |
1-male, 2-female |
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Social_support |
Self-rated use of this coping style strategy. From less to more perceived |
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Emotional_coping |
Self-rated use of this coping style strategy. From less to more perceived |
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Active_coping |
Self-rated active coping style strategy. From less to more perceived |
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Planning_coping |
Self-rated planning coping style strategy. From less to more perceived |
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Focusing_coping |
Self-rated focusing coping style strategy. From less to more perceived |
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Acceptance_coping |
Self-rated acceptance coping style strategy. From less to more perceived |
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Denial_coping |
Self-rated denial coping style strategy. From less to more perceived |
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Positive_reinterpretation |
Self-rated positive reinterpretation coping style strategy. From less to more perceived |
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Distraction_coping |
Self-rated distraction coping style strategy. From less to more perceived |
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Refusal_coping |
Self-rated refusal coping style strategy. From less to more perceived |
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Shift |
1-mornings, 2-evenings, 3-nights, 4-rotatory |
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Medic |
Use of medication task in binary |
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Docum |
Use of documentation task in binary |
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Social |
Use of social task in binary |
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IndCare |
Use of indirect Care task in binary |
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Communic |
Use of communication task in binary |
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DirCare |
Use of direct care task in binary |