Work stress in the staff of the Donum Foundation

Abstract

Stress occurs when a person views what is happening as exceeding their available resources and threatening their personal well-being. The objective of this study is to identify work stress, stress factors that affect the labor productivity of the Donum Foundation staff in the city of Cuenca. For this, the method that was used is descriptive correlational, with the help of a questionnaire that was submitted to validation of experts, the same one that is applied to 20 workers of the Donum Foundation with the following results: Reward: 37% of the workers The evaluators stated that they had presented levels of stress due to their low remuneration. Effort: 32% demonstrated that work overload was the main cause of their stress. Effects (quality of sleep) 31% indicate that stress directly affects the quality of sleep. In conclusion, stress is affected in the staff of the Donum Foundation: emotionally, in their sleep/rest habits, a situation that is worrying about the effects that may occur on the health of its workers, due to the information obtained, especially those that are over 49 years of age. In the area of ​​health, work stress is not being given due importance. It is corroborated by studies that show that, with constant exposure to high levels of stress, there are changes in the physiological health of workers, abnormal behaviors, including poor sleep quality.