Emotional,social and occupational adjustment among oncology nurses

Background: social,occupational and emotional adjustment of oncology nurses were assessed and compared with other nurses in this study. subjects and methods: one hundred nurses including oncology nurses (n=50) and non-oncology nurses (n=50) participated in cross-sectional study conducted in shariati hospital. bell’s adjustment inventory was used to measure social,emotional and occupational adjustment. survey data were entered into spss statistical software,version 18 and the kruskal-wallis test was used for data analysis. results: the study included nurses from women’s internal medicine ward (14%),men’s internal medicine ward (13%); midwifery unit (17%),operating room (15%) and hematology-oncology ward (41%). the mean age of the participants was 36.98 ± 8.28 years. in group of hematology-oncology nurses,the mean scores for occupational,social and emotional adjustment were 13.23 ± 1.99,12.47 ± 1.79 and 18.19 ± 2.52,respectively. data analysis showed that there is a statistically significant difference in the mean score of three areas of adjustment between oncology nurses and their colleagues working in general wards (p-value=0.002,p-value<0.001,p-value<0.001 for occupational,social and emotional adjustment,respectively). conclusion: the results of the study indicated that oncology nurses had significantly lower social,occupational and emotional adjustment compared with nurses working in other wards. © 2016,tehran university of medical sciences (tums). all rights reserved.