[Coping with occupational stress among nursing staff by participatory action research].

Objective: To describe a collaborative practice focused on coping with the occupational stress among nursing staff in a hospital setting.

Method: These practices focus on the contextualization of the problems and the design and implementation of actions using the psychopolitical model and the participatory action research (PAR) methodology. Participants were the nurses of 4 units of internal medicine at the public hospital "Virgen Macarena" in Seville.