Abstract

Background: job stress is an important phenomenon in social life and a serious threat for workforce health in the world today. Aim: To investigate job stress among nurses of an educational hospital in Yazd city. Methods: This research is sectional-descriptive with 141 staff of hospital who was randomly selected from various sectors. Data was collected using OSIPOW job stress questionnaire and was analyzed by SPSS 22 software. Results: 58.6 of population was female and 41.4 of them were men in this research. In addition, 6.6 of them were single and 93.4 of them were married. The mean overall stress score is 11.52 and its standard deviation was obtained 23.75. Results showed that the overall score of job stress among male and female has a significant difference (P=0.31). On the other hand, total sore of job stress didn't have a significant different in single and married groups (P=0.79). Moreover, a positive and non-positive correlation was seen between stress total score and age (P=0.255, r=0.123) Conclusion: Since the high percentage of nurses have medium stress level, this index can influence on their morality and makes them depressed and disappointed. © 2018 Lahore Medical And Dental College. All rights reserved.