Palliative care stress in a UK community hospital: evaluation of a stress-reduction programme.

In this study the Nurses Stress Scale and Nurses Coping With Stress Questionnaire were used to investigate work-related stress in 18 nurses providing palliative care in a UK NHS community hospital. These instruments were administered twice before and twice after a stress-reduction programme. In depth qualitative interviews were conducted before and after the programme and a 12-item questionnaire was used to assess whether the nurses found the programme useful.