Akram Mahdian1, Marziyeh Adel Mehraban2*, Musa Alavi3
Background and Objectives: Communication and technology has made the quality of healthcare evolve, along with promoting health all over the society and they are widely deployed in healthcare service systems so that, nowadays, they are inevitably essential in healthcare. The entrance of technology to a defective system would intensify the present problems and the stress resulting from its application to users, which is called "techno-stress". In this study, we aim to evaluate the techno-stress among the nurses in selected hospitals of Isfahan in 2015.
Methodology: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 190 nurses in the hospitals affiliated to Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, all of them qualified to this investigation by deploying multistage random sampling method. Questionnaire of “techno-stress and its dimensions” was the data collection tool. SPSS Statistics software was deployed to analyze the data.
Findings: The results showed that the mean score of techno-stress in the studied samples is 51.55 ± 15.607 out of 100 scores. Techno-stress has achieved the highest mean score in the field of feeling pressure and it got the lowest mean score in the technology involving.
Conclusion: The findings of this investigation proved that there is an average level of techno-stress in the studied hospitals. Therefore, nursing managers of health centers can plan for optimum usage of technology and better healthcare, based on techno-stress factors amongst the nurses in an environment where they must deal with developing technologies.
