title: [Anxiety and depression among nursing professionals who work in surgical units].
abstract: This descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational study was performed with the objective to evaluate anxiety and depression among nursing professionals working in Surgical Units. Participants were 211 nursing professionals from eleven hospitals of Londrina-Paraná, Brazil. Data collection was performed between the months of April and November 2007, using a questionnaire for the socio-demographic characterization of the professionals and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Most participants were nursing aides (62.6%), female (86.7%), married (54.0%), and in average 40 years old. Overall, the workers average score for anxiety was 6.3 and 5.2 for depression in an interval from zero to 21. A statistically significant difference was found for the occurrence of anxiety for cases of holding two jobs and the type of institution (p<0.05) and for the occurrence of depression for cases of nurses holding two jobs (p<0.05).
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitário de Londrina, Londrina, PR, Brasil. denisebeto@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Denise Rodrigues Costa
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Rosana Aparecida Spadoti
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Dantas
authors.forename: Maria Helena Palucci
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Marziale
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009729:Nursing; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital