Dr Grace Onyejekwe, Dr Eric Isaac Shockden & Dr Grace O. Daniel
Abstract
This study investigated the efficacy of psycho-education intervention in reducing organizational style stress among Nurse Educators (NEs), and how gender and marital status interact with psycho-education intervention to reduce organizational style stress. A pretest-posttest randomized controlled research design was employed for the study. A sample of 34 out of 87 NEs in the seven public nursing institutions in Plateau State was used. Seventeen participants each were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. Data were collected at baseline and after a six-week intervention programme using Nurse Educators Occupational Stress Scale (NEOSS, a = 0.83). Data was analyzed using mean, standard deviation, Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), and multivariate analysis. The results revealed that organizational style stress of nurse educators in the experimental and control groups were high ( =24.82 & = 25.88 respectively) at baseline. In addition, there was significant interaction effects of gender, marital status and psycho-education intervention on Nurse Educators’ organizational style stress [F (1, 33) = 12.35, p = 0.002; F(1, 33) = 23.26, p = 0.000]. The study recommended, among others, that the management of nursing institutions should organize regular workshops or seminars for their educators on psycho-education intervention and organizational style stress.