Greener Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health

Greener Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health, Vol. 6 (2), pp. 69-74, March 2018.

 ISSN: 2354-2381 © 2018 Authors

Research Article

Manuscript Number: 031018039

(DOI: http://doi.org/10.15580/GJEPH.2018.2.031018039)

Analysis of the Professional Stress of Doctors and Nurses Resulting from their Interactions in the Health Institutions of the City of Lubumbashi (in DRC)

¹MUTELO KONA Cathy, ²KALENGA LUNGUNGA Adolphe, ³KASWALA NYAMBI Christophe, ⁴MUNDONGO TSHAMBA Henry, ⁵MALONGA KAJ Françoise

¹Department of Teaching and Nursing Administration, Higher institute of Nursing School of Lubumbashi, P.O. BOX 4748, Lubumbashi, DRC.

²Department of Teaching and Nursing Administration, Higher institute of Nursing School of Lubumbashi, P.O. BOX 4748, Lubumbashi, DRC.

³Department of Health Institutions' Management, Higher institute of Nursing School of Lubumbashi, P.O. BOX 4748, Lubumbashi, DRC.

⁴Department of Maternal and infant Health, School of Public Health, University of Lubumbashi, P.O. BOX 1825, Lubumbashi, DRC.

⁵Department of Maternal and infant Health, School of Public Health, University of Lubumbashi, P.O. BOX 1825, Lubumbashi, DRC.

Abstract

This article analyzes the professional stress bound to the problematic interactions of the doctors and the nurses investigated in the health institutions of the City of Lubumbashi, in DRC, with their colleagues, their hierarchy, their patients and the guides of the latter. The objective is to evoke, for information purposes, the relational sources that go into the understanding of the multifactorial of the stress lived by investigated caregivers. To reach there, a laminated proportional sample of 562 subjects (n=562), which 432 nurses and 130 doctors, allowed to collect of data by questionnaire. These were encoded in Microsoft Excel and analyzed via Epi Info software version 7.2 of 2016 and SPSS 19.0 of 2012. The chi-square test contributed to test our hypothesis, by considering the Odds ratio meanwhile of confidence interval (CI) of 95 % and the value of p to direct the interpretation. The results show of numerous caregivers put under stress within the framework of the interactions with the patients (56.76 % of the nurses and 18.86 % of the doctors, is a total of 75.62 % of the nursing ones, with OR 1.56; in the borders of [0.9563], [2.5596]; with value of p=0.04 (p<0.05); the test being significant). This real-life experience of stress is fed by other sources always in the interactive frame: the interactions with the guides of patients are 68.32 % of nursing put under stress, the interactions with the colleagues cause 60.85 % of nursing put under stress and the interactions with the hierarchy are 55.51 % of nursing put under stress. These results concur to note that the relational framework of doctors and nurses surveyed is crossed by problematic interactions, very often conflicting both between professionals and even with the hierarchical leaders as between the nursing and, especially, the patients and their guides or relatives.

Keywords: Professional stress, interactions, doctors, nurses, patients.