The effect of health education program on femail nursses stress

Job stress is one of the most important occupational hazards in present time, so that, creates, a lot of damage for individuals and organizations and nursing is a stressful jobs. This study aim the impact of health education on reducing occupational stress in nurses was conducted. A quasi-experimental research was done in 2011 public haspitals of Hamedan on 58 Nurses, who were randomizing, in the intervention and control groups. For measure of job stress, nursing stress scale (NSS) and to assess of knowledge, attitudes, skills and behaviors, was used self-made questionnaire. Training program during the fifth session in 3 weeks, for the intervention group was done and nurses for 1/5 month, were followed. For data analysis was used software of spss and statistical t- test Average score of job stress, before training, the two groups did not differ significantly.but, after training, the average score of job stress in the intervention group than control group, had a significant reduction (p<0.001). Also, the average scores of knowledge, attitude, skills and behavior, after training,had a significant increase in the intervention group(p<0.001). Findings were confirmed the impact of health education programs in increasing behaviors and reduce job stress among nurses.