Research on the current status of the psychiatric nurses’ job burnout

VernacularTitle:精神病专科医院护理人员职业倦怠的现状研究
Author: Jinning WEN ¹ ; Yonghong ZHANG
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1. 214151 江苏省无锡市精神卫生中心临床精神三科14病区
Keywords: Psychiatric; Nurses; Job burnout
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2014;20(17):2054-2057
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To explore the current status of job burnout and its influence on the nursing staffs in a third-grade class-A psychiatric hospitals in order to provide basic data for intervention .Methods A total of 121 nurses were investigated with the Chinese version of the Nurse Burnout Scale ( NBS) .Results The participants had a certain degree of burnout , of which 57.9%nurses were without or with mild burnout;36.4%nurses had mild to moderate burnout;5.8% nurses had severe burnout . One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that nursing staffs had statistical differences in marital status , education, tenure, income, department and night shifts and other dimensions of burnout (P<0.05).Multiple linear regression analysis showed that the main factors of burnout were tenure and working department , with a total contribution rate of 19.81%.Conclusions There are different levels of job burnout in psychiatric nurses , hospital administrators should take the necessary response to its targeted interventions .