“Effectiveness of BME (4-7-8 Breathing, Meditation, Education) On Health Status, Stress, Burn Out of Nurses in a Selected Hospital of Vijayapur” Karnataka, India.

Abstract

Introduction: Nurses have the more work load in hospital settings by taking care of patients. Sometimes they feel stress, burn out in their working area due to many reasons and it having impact on their health status. Some are having good coping strategies and some are not to overcome this kind of stress and burnout sometimes they don’t have time to take care of their health status when it is deteriorated.

Objectives: 1) To Find the effectiveness of BME on health status, stress level, burnout level in interventional group. 2) To compare the post test health status scores, stress scores and burn out level scores between experimental and control group.

Methods: A Quasi experimental study with a sample of 180 nursing staffs was selected by Purposive sampling Technique. 90 samples in each group. The data was collected by using Self Administered Nursing Stress Scale, Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Health status was assessed by measuring BMI, BP, and Sugar Level respectively.

Results: Comparison of post test burn out between experimental group and control group shows that The post test emotional exhaustion (The Mann Whitney U test value is 2848.500 and p value is 0.001). So it shows that there is a significant difference in post test emotional exhaustion score in experimental group and in control group. Depersonalization (The Mann Whitney U test value is 3189.500 and p value is 0.013). Personal accomplishment (The Mann Whitney U test value is 1613.500 and p value is 0.001) So it shows that there is a significant difference in post test personal accomplishment score in experimental group and in control group. Comparison of Health status of staff nurses shows that significant difference between post test waist circumference between experimental group and control group. (mann whitney U test is 2610.500 and P is less than 0.05 level of significance). Systolic BP shows that there is significant difference between post test systolic BP between experimental group and control group (mann whitney U test is 3581.000 and P is less than 0.05 level of significance). Regarding stress The mann whitney U test (2856.000, p is less than 0.05 level of significance) shows that there is a significant difference between post test scores in experimental group and control group regarding death and dying, conflict with physician (2469.500, p is less than 0.05 level of significance), inadequate emotional support (2303.000, p is less than 0.05 level of significance). problems with peer support (2801.000, p is less than 0.05 level of significance), problems with supervisor (2519.500, p is less than 0.05 level of significance), work load (2774.000,p is less than 0.05 level of significance). patients and families (3257.500, p is less than 0.05 level of significance) discrimination (2794.000, p is less than 0.05 level of significance) indicates that there is a significant difference between experimental group and control group.

Conclusions: BME is a effective intervention for reducing stress and burn out among staff nurses. It is not having immediate effect on health status of staff nurses. So the intervention can be conducted for prolonged period of time to know its effect.