Table 1: Characterization of the CINAHL’s articles included in the sample, 2015.

Author
Year/Country
Study Design/objective Sample
(♀/♂)
Intervention/
Statistical analyses
Main Results
Mental health associated with the work process
Cho et al.
2014
South Korea
Descriptive exploratory study.
To examine the relationship between average hospital length of stay (LOS) of nursing units and work demands perceived by nurses, and between work demands and nurses’ health and job outcomes.
1027
(728/399)
Without intervention Job requirements were: quantitative demands, work pace and emotional demands.
The nurses reported high scores of job demands and low scores for health and employment outcomes.
Self-rated health was related to the emotional demands of work, being reported trouble sleeping, work-family conflict, personal stress and at work, lower job satisfaction.
A faster pace of work was related to greater work-family conflict
Gillespie et al.
2013
United States
Descriptive study, exploratory, quantitative approach.
Compare the symptoms of post-traumatic stress after verbal and physical aggression.
208a Without intervention Aggression at workplace has the potential to affect the mental health of nursing staff through the occurrence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
PTSD changed the ability to provide quiet and safe assistance and reduced its labor productivity.
Laowoko et al.
2004
England and Sweden
Cross-sectional study, descriptive and exploratory.
Compare the nature of the violence suffered by nurses and psychiatrists in Sweden and England
1437
Nurses
456
Psychiatrists
Total sample
(1314/592)
Without intervention Violent events at work cause as loss of motivation to work, feeling of relating to disability. Women are especially vulnerable to violence and to develop more serious mental health problems than men.
Swedish professionals tend to work more as a team, while the English work more in isolation.
Nemcek
2007
United States
Cross-sectional study, descriptive and exploratory.
Correlate self-nutrition and career satisfaction with life and the maintenance of a healthy nursing workforce.
136
(120/16)
Without intervention Healthy nutrition, satisfaction with career and life were positively correlated with mental health nursing team, arguably been a virtuous cycle and retro-fed by each of them, where the improvement in one aspect courses with the improvement of too much. Happiness in life is a powerful motivator in life and at work.
Roets et al.
2008
Bloemfontein
Descriptive, phenomenological, qualitative.
Describe the experience of nurses exposed to possible HIV infection due to occupational accident.
12a Without Intervention Two categories: mourning and side effects of prophylactic antiretroviral therapy. Nurses were mourning the loss of a sense of being healthy and invincible, showing the stages of denial, anger, anxiety and fear, with recurrent thoughts of adverse events, generating great psychological distress. The side effects were nausea, vomiting, insomnia, fatigue, exhaustion, palpitations, dizziness, muscle tremors, diarrhea, headache, malaise. In addition, they felt stressed and traumatized.

aDid not report the sex of nursing professionals who participated in the study.