A STUDY ON STRESS MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES IN A HOSPITAL

A study on “Stress Management Techniques in a hospital” topic stated that level of stress from managers in a hospital. The objectives of this study are (i.) To assess the stress management techniques followed by the hospital and offer suggestions for reducing stress among the members. (ii.) To assess the relationship between stress and experience, between stress and age of managers in the hospital. The research design used for this study is descriptive research. The population of this study is managers. Since the population is not huge, the whole population of managers were considered as samples for the study which totaled to 120.In the entire study population, it's noted that 10% of the sample falls within the age range of 21-30, 50% is in the age group of 31-40,27% of the sample lies in the age group of about 41-50 and the percentage of sample that falls in the category 51 and above is 13%.The majority of the sample of about 33% has total work experience of about 11-15 years.27% of the sample has an experience of about 21 and above years.17% of the sample falls in the category of 0-5 years of total experience.12% of the sample lies in the category of 16-20 years of experience. The sample that has about 6-10 years of experience is 10%. This study has shown that the managers are working in hospitals do feel stress but not in very high levels.