IRCT201509261788N13 IRCT 2015-12-09 center for nursing care reaserch Iran University of Medical Sciences Stress management to stress in nurses at Neonatal Intensive Care Units " not applicable The effects of stress management program on response to stress in nurses at Neonatal Intensive Care Units " 2015-12-22 anticipated 70 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/1372 interventional Randomization: Randomized, Blinding: Not blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Parallel, Purpose: Supportive. N/A stress. Intervention 1: Intervention group: In this study, McNamara stress management is used in six one-hour sessions during six weeks, when NICU nurses receive educational intervention in groups of six. In each session, new topics are presented after reviewing previous ones, and issues discussed are summed up at the end of the session. Session one: Introduction to the importance of learning stress management skills; presenting definitions of stress. Session two: Introducing general effects of stress on various body systems, and examining physical, psychological, and behavioral effects of stress. Session three: Subjective and rational strategies for dealing with stress, and introducing problem-oriented and emotion-oriented methods as coping strategies, examining coping methods adopted by people in stressful situations. Session four: Introducing steps of coping skills, and working on the first stage: being aware of own feelings. Session five: The second step of stress control skills, physical ways of coping with stress: these are concerned with a healthier lifestyle, and include healthy nutrition, and sufficient sleep and exercise, which maintain and strengthen the immune system and increase energy level. Session six: Review of comments expressed by nurses and obtaining feedback, and SRI posttest. Personnel's stress is measured using pretest and posttest, and stress levels in two groups are compared through posttest and follow-up test. Eight weeks later, SRI is made available to nurses in the intervention group (posttest), in order to assess sustainability over time of stress management education provided by the researcher. Intervention 2: Control group: No action is taken.