Among Nursing and Psychology professionals, the job satisfaction of those in Adult Inpatient Units is analyzed, with a new scale to measure nursing workloads validated. Objective: The objective of this study was to relate nursing workloads to professional job satisfaction. Methods: This is an observational, analytical, descriptive, concurrent and quantitative study, which used the Overall Job Satisfaction scale and subscales therein, to identify global satisfaction—intrinsic or related to motivational factors and extrinsic or associated with hygienic factors—in nursing professionals (n = 104) from eight Inpatient Units of Internal Medicine and Surgery, in four hospital centers, to describe job satisfaction in the professionals studied and to find statistically significant associations between job satisfaction and workload (measured with the scale MIDENF^®) in the inpatient units where they work. Results: There were higher levels of satisfaction in the variables “relationship with immediate boss” and “relationship with fellow workers”, and lower levels in “relationship with senior management” and “organizational system of the unit”. In the inferential analysis, the scores were 75.63 for overall satisfaction, 35.28 for intrinsic satisfaction, and 40.36 for extrinsic satisfaction. Conclusions: There is a close relationship between workload and job satisfaction, showing more dissatisfaction regarding organizational aspects and professional recognition.

Key words: Nurses; Education; Quality of Health Care; Employment

Objetivo: Analizar el nivel y la relación entre habilidades de comunicación, autoeficacia percibida y síndrome de Burnout en profesionales de la salud del servicio de urgencias hospitalario y unidad de cuidados críticos de un hospital comarcal. Método: Se plantea un estudio observacional y transversal en una muestra de 90 profesionales sanitarios de un Hospital Comarcal, 19 médicos (21,1%), 47 enfermeros (52,2%), 24 auxiliares de enfermería (26,7%). Se han usado la Escala sobre Habilidades de Comunicación en Profesionales de la Salud, el Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Services Survey y la escala de la Autoeficacia percibida.Resultados: Se obtiene una correlación negativa entre las diferentes dimensiones de la Escala sobre Habilidades de Comunicación en Profesionales de la Salud, la realización personal en el trabajo del Maslach Burnout Inventory y la autoeficacia percibida con las dimensiones agotamiento emocional y despersonalización del Maslach Burnout Inventory. Por otro lado, se observa una correlación positiva y estadísticamente significativa entre las dimensiones de las habilidades de comunicación con la dimensión realización personal en el trabajo del Maslach Burnout Inventory y la autoeficacia percibida.Conclusiones: Las habilidades de comunicación y la autoeficacia percibida de los profesionales sanitarios en los servicios de urgencias hospitalarios y las unidades de cuidados críticos están relacionadas con un menor agotamiento emocional y despersonalización, y una mayor realización personal en el trabajo. Aim: To analyze the level and relationship between communication skills, perceived self-efficacy and Burnout syndrome in health professionals from the hospital emergency department and the critical care unit of a regional hospital.Method: An observational and cross-sectional study was conducted with a sample of 90 health professionals from a Regional Hospital, 19 physicians (21.1%), 47 nurses (52.2%), 24 nursing aides (26.7%). The Communication Skills Scale for Health Professionals, the Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Services Survey and the Scale of Perceived Self-Efficacy were utilized.Results: A negative correlation was obtained between the different dimensions of the Communication Skills Scale for Health Professionals, the personal accomplishment at work of the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the perceived self-efficacy with the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization dimensions of the Maslach Burnout Inventory. On the other hand, a positive and statistically significant correlation was observed between the dimensions of communication skills with the personal accomplishment dimension in the Maslach Burnout Inventory work and the perceived self-efficacy.Conclusions: The communication skills and the perceived self-efficacy of the health professionals in the emergency department and critical care unit are related to less emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, and greater personal accomplishment at work.

ResumenObjetivo: Conocer las creencias, actitudes y prácticas de los adolescentes en sus relaciones de noviazgo y caracterizar el perfil de los adolescentes que reproducen y que son más susceptibles de sufrir violencia de género.Método: Diseño observacional, descriptivo, transversal y analítico a través de 3 cuestionarios a 131 hombres y 139 mujeres adolescentes de Educación Secundaria de la Región de Murcia (España).Resultados: Los adolescentes con padres de bajo nivel educativo y los hombres reconocen en menor medida las formas de violencia y justifican en mayor proporción los comportamientos violentos de control y poder sobre las mujeres. Tanto hombres como mujeres perpetúan la violencia, pero ellos ejercen más la violencia sexual mientras que ellas la verbal, que al mismo tiempo es más sufrida por las adolescentes.Conclusiones: Las adolescentes son más susceptibles de sufrir violencia verbal y violencia sexual por parte de sus parejas, conformando un grupo de riesgo de violencia de género sobre el que hay que implementar medidas de prevención, detección y protección. Es necesario sensibilizar y formar en igualdad de género, especialmente, a los adolescentes con padres de bajo nivel educativo y los de sexo masculinoAbstractObjective: To determine the beliefs, attitudes and practices of adolescents in their relationships and to characterize the profile of adolescents who reproduce and who are more susceptible to suffer gender violence.Method: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional design through self-administered questionnaires to 131 men and 139 women adolescents from secondary education centers in the Region of Murcia (Spain). Results: Adolescents with parents of low educational level and adolescent men recognize forms of violence to a lesser extent than women and justify to a greater extent, violent behaviors of control and power over adolescent women. Both men and women perpetuate violence, but men exert more sexual violence while women exert more verbal violence. At the same time, adolescent women are most susceptible to verbal violence from their intimate partners.Conclusions: Female adolescents are more susceptible to verbal violence and sexual violence by their partners, forming a group at risk of gender violence for which prevention, detection and protection measures must be implemented.It is necessary to sensitize and train in gender equality, especially, to adolescents with parents of low educational level and males. Keywords intimate partner violence, adolescent, aggression, sexism, gender and health, interpersonal relations, sexual violence.

We conducted validation of a scale to measure nursing workloads, previously designed using NIC interventions within the four nursing functions (patient care, teaching, management, and research). Methods: This is an analytical, descriptive, prospective, and observational study using qualitative methodology (focus groups and in-depth interviews) with a quantitative and qualitative section (committee of experts and real application of the scale through a validation pilot and with multicentric application, including hospitalization units of internal medicine and surgery of four hospitals). Qualitative analysis was performed with Atlas.ti8 and quantitative analysis with R. Results: Qualitatively, all the participants agreed on the need to measure workloads in all nursing functions with standardized terminology. The expert committee found greater relevance (91.67%) in “prevention” and “health education” as well as consistency with the construct and adequate wording in 99% of the selected items. In the pilot test and multicenter application, the nurses spent more time on the caring dimension, in the morning shift, and on the items “self-care”, “medication”, “health education”, “care of invasive procedures”, “wounds care”, “comfort”, and “fluid therapy”. Cronbach’s alpha 0.727, composite reliability 0.685, AVE 0.099, and omega coefficient 0.704 were all acceptable. Construct validity: KMO 0.5 and Bartlett’s test were significant. Conclusions: The scale can be considered valid to measure nursing workloads, both qualitatively in obtaining the consensus of experts and health personnel and quantitatively, with acceptable reliability and validity superior to other similar scales.