Studies showed that there is a significant association between psychosocial job stress and high BMI. Another study suggested that Emergency Department Nurses have a higher potential risk of developing stress-related disorders in later life. Additionally critical care nurses observe higher psychosocial stress during their first two years of working as a nurse.

Job stress impact on Nurses’ Physical Health

It has been shown in a study that female nurses showed a greater overcommitment at work while male nurses showed higher effort-reword imbalance. Overcommitment is found to be a better predictor for oxidative stress in comparison with effort-reward imbalance. Overall, studies have shown that there is a link between job stress indicators, oxidative stress biomarkers, and overcommitment.

Oxidative Stress relation with Job stress in Nurses

Psychological stress has been linked with high levels of production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) which causes oxidative stress (OS). OS has been linked to higher rick factors for cardiovascular disease and cancer. One study done on industrial workers in Japan demonstrated an association between oxidative stress biomarkers and job stress. Additionally, job stress has been acknowledged as one of the major risk factors for coronary heart disease.

Pepperdine University

Participants reported a range of challenges that resulted in significant frustration, stress, and anxiety
- Persistent feelings of fatigue and exhaustion
- Being penalized for poor expression in writing assignments 
- Losing points on assignments due to writing quality
- Concern about how their writing ability would cause others to perceive them
- Delay in completing assignments due to anxiety over the quality of their work
- A range of sleep difficulties, which were linked to time pressures, anxiety about test performances, and general anxiety over difficulties with studying

Stress and Anxiety

Oxidative stress is the imbalance of the manifestation of reactive oxygen species and the body’s ability to fix resulting damage or detoxify the reactive intermediates. This imbalance causes a disturbance in the cells that leads to a toxic effect that damages all components of the cell, including proteins, lipids and DNA.

Oxidative Stress

Bardhan, R., Heaton, K., Davis, M., Chen, P., Dickinson, D. A., & Lungu, C. T. (2019). A cross sectional study evaluating psychosocial job stress and health risk in emergency department nurses. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(18), 3243.

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