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Background: The stress among the nurses working in paediatric department is in need to be managed to improve the quality care in health care system. The presence of healthy and stress -free nurses in paediatric department to providing vigilant monitoring, empathic patient care, and vigorous advocacy. Many workplace stressors can produce physical and mental illness. Stress is what mind and body experience while adopting continuously changing environment. Organizational stress includes harmful emotional and physical reactions which occur when worker's capabilities, needs, or resources do not fit to the job. Objectives: 1) Assess the level of stress among nursing staff of paediatric department. 2) Evaluate information booklet regarding stress and its management. 3) Find out association between post -test knowledge core with their selected socio demographic variable. Materials and Methods: A quantitative research approach is used for the study. The research design adopted for the study is experimental. The study was conducted among nursing staff of paediatric department in Shri Mahant Indresh Hospital, Dehradun. The conceptual framework used for the representation of elements is systemic conceptual framework. The data was collected using purposive sampling technique. The data was collected to assess the level of stress and to evaluate information booklet regarding stress and its management among paediatric department nursing staff. It was done using standardized questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed and interpreted using descriptive statistics. Results: The pretest score 6.66% samples scored within the range of 0 -14 (normal stress), 6.66% samples scored within the range of 15 -18 (mild stress), 3.33% of samples scored within the range of 19 -25 (moderate stress), 6.66% of the samples scored within the range of 26 -33 (severe stress) and mean pre -test majority of the sample show that 23 (76%) were having (extremely severe) within the range of 34 -100. And post -test majority of the sample shows that 30 (100%) were having (normal) within the range of 0 -14. There is significant effect seen of providing information booklet regarding stress and its management among paediatric department nursing staff. Conclusion: On the basis of finding of the study, the following conclusions were drawn which also bring out the limitations of the study in the picture: 1)From the findings it can be concluded that most of the nursing employees where in the age group of (20 -25) years 2) Majority of samples were females, most of them were single, and majority of them had degree in nursing.3) Most of them (76%) had extremely severe stress, whereas (6.66%) had normal level of stress.Moderate level of stress was found to be among (3.33%) and similar percentage (6.66%) of them had mild and severe stress.4) It shows that most of them had extremely severe stress which may interfere with their efficacy of work health status of nursing employees at all levels.5) The information booklet about stress and its management was found to be quite effective is managing the stress among paediatric nursing staff.
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