Introduction.

Stress is an adaptive physical and psychological response to the demands and threats of the environment. Add stress to a workplace, has consequences on the quality of work environment for workers.

Methods.

Descriptive, cross-sectional observational study. Sample of 278 subjects, with a confidence level of 98%, an error margin of 5% and an expected proportion of 50%. In order to select the participants, a simple random sampling was carried out. The scale of the EEP-10 was applied. A univariate and bivariate analysis was performed.

Results.

A positive and significant correlation (0.232 and p value = 0.000) was found between age and the percentage of non-stress control, and association between the percentage of stress control variable and the bus route taken by drivers (p value). = 0.019).

Conclusions.

Bus drivers are exposed to different unfavorable conditions that can endanger their health and generate some kind of stress.

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