Ansiedade, depressão e habilidades de vida em enfermeiros de UTI de um hospital escola

Abstract

Anxiety and depression are disorders that can cause harm to one's personal life, the social environment and the work of the human being in general, so that programs for the prevention of mental health, such as the development of life skills, can contribute to the improvement and prevention of these disorders. Objective: Describe the sociodemographic characteristics, health conditions and connect symptoms of Anxiety and Depression with Life Skills. Méthod: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study with survey design and the relation of variables based on quantitative and qualitative analyzes. All the nurses of the Intensive Care Units (ICU) of the Foundation Hospital of the São José do Rio Preto Medical School (FUNFARME), who agreed to respond to the evaluation instruments, were invited to participate in the study. The following instruments were used: 1) Protocol with sociodemographic information and health / disease conditions; 2) Hospital Scale of Anxiety and Depression - HADS; 3) Life Skills Scale (EHV). The exploratory data analysis included mean, median and standard deviation and variation for continuous and numerical variables and proportion for categorical variables. All tests were two-tailed and P values <0.05 were considered significant. Results: The studied universe is composed of individuals between 23 and 43 years of age predominantly females. The majority of the evaluated ones indicated absence of health problems. Significant symptoms of anxiety and depression were found in about one third of the sample and eight of the ten HV in the two intervals, with a median of 4, that is, good HV. Conclusion: The sample consisted of a group of relatively healthy nurses, with a lower presence of significant symptoms of Anxiety and Depression compared to similar studies and good HV. In the comparative analysis between groups with and without depression, older women with a mean age of (35 years) presented depression and association with low ability to live effective communication.