Plan de estrategias para disminución del estrés asociado al síndrome metabólico en profesionales de salud

Abstract

Introduction: Work stress is one of the main problems facing today's society, even more so in sectors such as health where there are a series of factors involved such as: irregular hours, night and shift work, physical and psychological burdens related to work. suffering and risk of death of the patient. Objective: identify the main stressors that affect health professionals and determine strategies to reduce stress in health professionals. Method: descriptive bibliographic review developed from databases such as: PubMed, LILACS, Scielo, BVS and Google academic, using Health Sciences and Medical Subject descriptors, whose criteria were: original articles, review articles, related case studies to the topic, published in the period 2019-2023, in Spanish and English and coming from indexed journals. The bibliographic review was developed with 30 bibliographic sources. Result: the main stressors that affect the health of health professionals are intrinsic and extrinsic, the former include critical care environments, rotating shifts, workload and contact with suffering and death, while the second type: being a woman, experience and academic preparation. The main stress coping strategies are coping, resilience, and need satisfaction. Conclusions: Health professionals face stressors daily during the performance of their duties, which is why they apply strategies to cope with these situations and thus avoid affecting physical and mental health