Control is and has been a pervasive factor in the lives of many across the world, influencing the way research can be conducted or the way people try to maintain a balance in the weight or appearance. The simple principle has to ability to create complexities for a person both on an external and internal level. An example of this is eating disorders, in which a person manipulates the amount of nutrition they may receive, either by denying oneself or over indulging in it. Healthcare workers, in many aspects are at risk of developing eating disorders since a major contributing factor is perceived stress. Nurses specifically are in a unique position of susceptibility since they are in a high stressed job where control is often difficult to achieve. King, Vidourek, and Schweibert of University of Cincinnati created a study to determine if there is a correlation between disordered eating and job stress between nurses. This writer will review the study conducted, evaluate the process of the study and discuss the importance the study has in relation to the nursing profession.
Eating disorders and stress can describe in a number of different ways. Eating disorders consist of those who display abnormal eating behaviors, where a person may under or over eat (Townsend, 2009). Some disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and obesity; in most cases these disorders fall in the psychiatry and psychiatric nursing (Townsend). Stress is also a psychological state, in which a person experiences emotional tension that can lead to or be attributed to physical illnesses (Townsend).
Evaluation of the Nursing Research Report
King, Vidourek, and Schweibert’s study is titled, Disordered eating and job stress among nurses. The authors clearly defines what the subject of the study in the title, which leads this writer to identify that the independent variable is job-stress and the dependent variable is disordered eating. The population target that this study is focusing on is nurses, either registered nurses (RNs) or license vocational nurses (LVNs). The primary problem that the researchers are focusing on is the relation between the levels of stress a nurse has on the job to the risk of the developing or having eating disorder. In the background information, they report that in other profession in which stress is high, eating disorders are reported more often (King, Vidourek, & Schwiebert, 2009). They suggest that nursing is a high-level stress job that could possibly place nurses at risk (King et al.). They justify the need and importance of study for nurses as it implicates a possible need for interventions from the management arena of nursing and possibly personal intervention as well (King et al.). The problems is researchable as it is makes use of surveys in order to create a set of statistical data. The researchers of this study do not formally imply that they utilized a conceptual framework, even more so, one can assume that they make use of the...