Status and influencing factors of nurses' comfort with touch

VernacularTitle:护士触摸舒适感的现状调查及其影响因素分析
Author: Lili BAI ¹ ; Li TIAN ; Xiuling CHENG ; Shiying LIU ; Jinjin ZHANG
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1. 300450,天津市天津市第五中心医院神经外科
Keywords: Nurse; Touch; Lassitude; Root Cause Analysis
From: Chinese Journal of Nursing 2018;53(3):330-333
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the status quo of nurses' comfort about physical touch and to analyze the influencing factors.Methods Totally 398 nurses were selected during March to May 2017 from three tertiary hospitals in Tianjin with convenience sampling.General information questionnaire,Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey (MBI-GS),and Nurses' Comfort with Touch Scale (NCTS) were used to collect data and analyze influencing factors.Results The score of nurses' comfort with touch was (44.18±6.27).The average score of nurses' comfort was (5.84±1.43) in task-oriented contact dimension,higher than scores of the other three dimensions.Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that age and emotional exhaustion were main influencing factors.Conclusion The nurses' comfort with touch was at a moderate level.Nurses aged between 25 and 46 years,with emotional exhaustion scored less than 27,had higher comfort with touch.