Fatigue and Quality of Life in Clinical Nurses.
- Author:
Jung In LEE
1
;
Sun Hee PARK
;
Ja Min MOON
;
Kyoung Ae PARK
;
Kyoung Ok KIM
;
Hyun Jeong JEONG
;
Ji Yun JUNG
Author Information
1. Department of Nursing, Hyechon College, Korea. jileet@yahoo.co.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Nurse;
Fatigue;
Quality of life
- MeSH:
Administrative Personnel;
Fatigue*;
Hospitals, General;
Humans;
Marital Status;
Nursing;
Quality of Life*;
Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamental Nursing
2004;11(3):317-326
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: This study was done to identify correlations between fatigue and quality of life in clinical nurses. METHOD: A sample of 294 nurses working in 3 general hospitals answered a questionnaire containing Yoshitake's fatigue scale and WHOQOL-BREF. Data were analyzed using t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficients. The SPSS/WIN 11.0 version program was used. RESULTS: The score for level of fatigue was 2.11 (52.7%) and quality of life, 2.89 (57.8%). The level of fatigue was highest in the physical domain followed by psychical and nervous-sensual domain in that order. There were statistically significant differences in scores of fatigue depending on the nurse's age, marital status, career, position, health status and present illness. Quality of life had the highest score in the social domain followed by physical, overall, psychological, and environmental domain in that order. There were statistically significant differences in scores on quality of life depending on nurse's age, marital status, career, position, health status and present illness. CONCLUSION: The relationship between fatigue and quality of life revealed a significant negative correlation. Based on this study, nursing administrators need to reduce the level of nurse fatigue by providing various programs, which improve quality of life.
