Occupational Stress in Nurse sAA<br/>—The Study Provided during the Urged Pandemic COVID-19 Quarantine Period

Abstract

Introduction: Nursing is considered to be a complex and high demanding profession. A combination of high workplace demands, over-responsibility, and over-authority has been identified as a major source of occupational stress among nursing staff. Material and methods: Our study measured level of α-amylase in the saliva, non-invasive, reliable biomarker for stress exposure, of nurses using the Japanese device SALIVA AMYLASE MONITOR 2004. The questionnaire was considered to figure out how all 473 nurses from the Mongolian tertiary referral hospitals perceive and accept the stress. The Likert scale was used in measuring the questions. Participants were recommended not to eat any meal in the morning 8-10a.m. and after work for examination. The indicators were evaluated by cross-sectional research model. Results: The amylase levels of nurses in the study ranged from 2-34 in the low stress group to a minimum of 16,083, while in the morning, the amylase levels in the medium group ranged from 2-105 to a maximum of 25,226 KU/L. The one-way ANOVA results revealed that the differences between the morning sAA level groups were statistically significant (F = 3.481, p = 0.032). Conversely, the evening sAA levels (F = 1.256, p = 0.286) had no statistical differences (F = 1.144), ( p = 0.331). Occasionally, our study was conducted at the quarantine period of pandemic COVID-19, and we can see clearly that the nurses at National Center for Infectious Diseases are working hard under the urged stressed condition.