Research Article

Occupational Health Hazards in ICU Nursing Staff

Table 4

Medians, means, and standard deviations of social damage among nurses and nursing technicians, Brasília, 2007.

Social hazardsNursesNursing technicians
MdMaSDMdMaSD

Family relation difficulties221.111.71
Affective relation difficulties1.51.70.911.81.1
Insensitivity towards others11.70.911.71
Social life difficulties11.60.811.60.9
Find it difficult to make friends11.60.811.60.9
Social isolation11.50.911.61
Difficulty in making decisions regarding personal life11.50.911.60.9
Overall disinterest towards others11.50.811.70.9
Uncontrolled aggressiveness11.30.511.30.7

Ma: mean; Md: median; SD: standard deviation.