title: Preliminary study about occupational stress of physicians and nurses in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units: the balance between effort and reward.
abstract: This study compared the balance between effort (E) and reward (R) among physicians and nurses working in pediatric (PED) and neonatal (NEO) Intensive Care Units. This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out with 37 physicians and 20 nurses. The Effort-Reward Imbalance Questionnaire was used. Statistically significant differences were not found among physicians (p>0.05) or nurses from PED and NEO in relation to E and R (p>0.05). No statistically significant differences were found between physicians and nurses in PED in the several studied variables. Comparison between the professionals working in NEO revealed that physicians presented more over-commitment than nurses (p=0.01). The organizational setting of NEO proved to be more demanding for physicians, exacting a greater commitment to their work, while demands presented in both units seemed to be the same for nurses.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil. monalisa.cassia@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Monalisa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Cássia Fogaça
authors.forename: Werther Brunow
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: de Carvalho
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: de Albuquerque Cítero
authors.forename: Luiz Antonio
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Nogueira-Martins
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D020445:Hospitalists; D006801:Humans; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D015278:Intensive Care Units, Pediatric; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D000078329:Workforce