COMPARATIVE INQUIRY OVER NEUROENDOCRINE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ANSWER TO STRESS

Abstract

A reasearch of secondary analysis whose aim was to find if there existed some relationship between the neuroendocrine parameters liberated during stress situations and the cognitive perception of stress which a person suffers when faced to the same alarm stimulus, which in the present study corresponded to the coronary arteriography examination. N = 28 patientes. Hipothesis which relate the thermometer scale score of fear with the plasmatic levels of noradrenaline, glycemia and cortisol in patients faced to a coronary arteriography, were discussed. Data recollected in the research “Nursing Intervention as strategy to reduce Stress undergoing a Coronary Arteriography, were used. The stress was measured by plasmatic noradrenaline levels, glycemia, cortisol and the thermometer scale of fear (Walk 1986). Work was carried out with non parametric docimasies, coefficients of Spearman and Kendall correlation. Results allow to emphasize that no positive correlation exists between the scores of the thermoter scale of fear and the plasmatic levels of noradrenaline, glycemia and cortisol. Concluding the the thermometer scale of fear is not a measurement instrument recommended to measure stress..