Efectividad de esencias florales para el tratamiento de estrés laboral en los trabajadores de la Empresa de Lácteos PROALIM

Abstract

The aim of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of flower essences in patients with work-related stress in the company Productos Alimenticios Muñoz “PROALIM”. This is a qualitative and descriptive research, which is applied according to the depht of the scope; According to the manipulation of variables, it is quasi-experimental-prospective since it is based on the effectiveness of flower essences in workers suffering from work-related stress, probabilistic, cross-sectional, controlled and randomized. For the classification of the twenty patients, these were separated into two groups of ten people each: the first group called control or group A, treated with the flower essence and the second group or group B, treated only with the placebo. A clinical psychologist approved the psychological test taken from the Instituto Mexicano de Seguridad Social (IMSS) which was applied in the four weeks of study in order to determine the degree of stress at the beginning and at the end of the treatment. The results showed that patients in group A obtained a decrease in their stress level, going from a high level (32.40 points) in the first week to (17.40 points) at the end of the fourth week, while, in members of group B, after four weeks of treatment, their stress levels did not vary significantly, remaining between high and medium levels throughout the study process. As a conclusion, it was obtained that the treatment with the flower essence is effective in controlling work-related stress symptoms, since after four weeks the aforementioned stress levels could be considerably alleviated. It is recommended to evaluate the effectiveness of flower essences in more patients with work-related stress for a longer period of time and to carry out a more exhaustive control of stress levels in patients.