DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8pqv
title: Nurses coping with daily stressors

description: Background: During their workday, nurses face a variety of stressors that
 are dealt with using different coping strategies. One criticism of the
 contextual models of work stress is that they fail to focus on individual
 responses like coping with stress. Neverthless, little is
 know about the momentary determinants of coping in nurses.
 Objectives: To identify the momentary predictors of problem-focused
 approaching coping and emotion-focused approaching coping, as well as
 those for seeking social support and refusal coping strategies, during the
 working day in nurses. Design: This study uses descriptive, correlational,
 two-level design with repeated measures. Settings: Wards of two University
 hospitals. Participants: A random cohort of 113 nurses was studied.
 Methods: An ecological momentary assessment was made of demand, control,
 effort, reward, nursing task, coping, mood and fatigue, and of coping
 style by questionnaire. Multilevel two-level statistical analyses were
 performed in order to identify both within person and between person
 relationships. Results: Different momentary types of coping were
 associated with different tasks. The problem-focused coping could be
 explained by the direct care and medication tasks, demand, planning coping
 style, mood, and negatively by acceptation coping style. Emotion-focused
 coping could be explained by documentation and medication tasks
 (negatively), mood, demand, distraction, and disengagement coping styles.
 Seeking social support coping could be explained by the task of
 communication, mood, fatigue (negatively), and seeking emotional support
 as a coping style. Refusal coping could be explained by mood, and the
 coping style of focusing and venting emotions. Refusal coping is not
 specific to any task. Conclusions: The choice of the coping strategy
 depends on the task, of their appraisal and on the different styles of
 coping.
description: Data were collected from two university hospitals in
 Spain. Data is in long format. It is processed for
 multilevel analysis. Database is in R format.
description: Variables' description: 
 
 Person Person ID 
 Moment_total 
 
 Number of registered times 
 Day 
 Day of assessment: 1-5 
 Moment 
 Moment of assessment: 1-5 
 Mood 
 Self-rated, ecological momentary assessment, mood (from 1:
 negative mood to 5: positive mood) 
 Fatigue 
 fatigue, ecological momentary assessment (from 1: less fatigue to
 5: more fatigue) Demand
 
 Self-rated, ecological momentary assessment, demand (1-5). From
 less to more perceived Effort
 
 Self-rated, ecological momentary assessment, effort (1-5). From
 less to more perceived Control
 
 Self-rated, ecological momentary assessment, control (1-5). From
 less to more perceived Reward
 
 Self-rated, ecological momentary assessment, reward (1-5). From
 less to more perceived. 
 Problem
 
 Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) of Problem-coping in
 binary Emotion
 
 EMA of emotion-coping in binary 
 Support 
 EMA of seeking social support-coping in binary
 Refusal 
 EMA of refusal coping in binary 
 Num_coping 
 
 Times the coping has been used in binary 
 Hospital 
 Code of hospital 
 Gender
 
 1-male, 2-female 
 
 Social_support 
 Self-rated use of this coping style strategy. From less to more
 perceived 
 Emotional_coping 
 Self-rated use of this coping style strategy. From less to more
 perceived Active_coping
 
 Self-rated active coping style strategy. From less to more
 perceived Planning_coping
 
 Self-rated planning coping style strategy. From less to more
 perceived Focusing_coping
 
 Self-rated focusing coping style strategy. From less to more
 perceived 
 Acceptance_coping 
 Self-rated acceptance coping style strategy. From less to more
 perceived Denial_coping
 
 Self-rated denial coping style strategy. From less to more
 perceived 
 Positive_reinterpretation 
 Self-rated positive reinterpretation coping style strategy. From
 less to more perceived 
 Distraction_coping 
 Self-rated distraction coping style strategy. From less to more
 perceived Refusal_coping
 
 Self-rated refusal coping style strategy. From less to more
 perceived Shift
 
 1-mornings, 2-evenings, 3-nights, 4-rotatory
 Medic 
 Use of medication task in binary 
 Docum 
 Use of documentation task in binary 
 Social 
 Use of social task in binary 
 IndCare 
 Use of indirect Care task in binary 
 Communic 
 Use of communication task in binary 
 DirCare 
 Use of direct care task in binary