Assessment of anger control among nursing personnel of Emam Reza hospital (Birjand, 2010)

Anger is a human complicated excitement and a common reaction towards disappointment and misbehavior. Without the control of anger, it makes individual problems, crime, offence and aggression to others’ rights. Also, it causes mental and physical problems like gastric ulcer, migraine headache, and depression. The purpose of this research is to Study the Control of anger in nursing personnel of Emam Reza hospital. In this analytical and descriptive study, all employed nursing personnel in Emam Reza hospital were statistically selected and evaluated by using the standard questionnaire of anger control. Data were statistically analyzed with SPSS software, independent t test, one way variance analysis and Tukey test (a =0.05). In this study, there were no meaningful differences in the average score of anger between men and women. But there was a significant difference in the score average of anger in personal relationships and total score of anger between two groups with occupational histories less than 5 years and 10-20 years. Difference in the kind of anger in personal relationships was statistically meaningful between 20-30years old and 31-40 year s old groups (P=0.003) and also between 20-30 years old with 41years old groups and more (P=0.04). The ability to control the anger in individual relationships is different in persons at different ages. Some problems like occupation, marriage and lack of sufficient equipment are effective on the amount of anger. Since personnel with high ages and high occupation records, are more able to control their anger, and according to these results, it is recommended to organize educational workshops about the anger control for younger personnel in future.