Attention Demands in the Workplace and the Capacity to Direct Attention of Nurses

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem

Alessandra Nazareth Caine Pereira Roscani²  Edinêis De Britto Guirardello¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Estadual de Campinas Hospital de ClínicasSP ,Brazil

关键词: Nursing;    Attention;    Health Facility Environment;    Enfermagem;    Atenção;    Ambiente de Instituições de Saúde;    Enfermería;    Atención;    Ambiente de Instituciones de Salud;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-11692010000400017

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This was a descriptive, correlational study designed to evaluate the capacity to direct attention (CDA) of the nurse and to verify an association between the CDA and attention demand situations. For data collection the instruments used were: the Attentional Function Index and the Directed Attention Demands. The participants were 169 nurses of a teaching hospital in the State of São Paulo. The mean perception of performance or CDA was 60.4 which differed between the variables: unit of work (p=0.013), work hours (p=0.044), presence of health problems (p=0.026) and problems of a psychological nature (p=0.005). There was a negative association between the situations of demand and CDA (r = - 0.294, p<0.0001). It was concluded that nurses showed good CDA, which was related to some professional and demographic variables, and the higher the attentional demands, the lower the CDA.

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