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Nurse burnout: Personal and environmental factors as predictors
Author(s) -
Wang Shanshan,
Liu Yanhui,
Wang Linlin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1440-172X
pISSN - 1322-7114
DOI - 10.1111/ijn.12216
Subject(s) - depersonalization , emotional exhaustion , burnout , stressor , nursing , scale (ratio) , psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , physics , quantum mechanics
The aim of this study is to investigate the level of burnout of clinical nurses and to examine the influence of personal and environmental factors on nurse burnout. A total of 717 full‐time nurses from six hospitals in T ianjin, C hina, completed five questionnaires: a demographic questionnaire, the M aslach B urnout I nventory, the G eneral S elf‐ E fficacy S cale, the P ractice E nvironment S cale of the N ursing W ork I ndex and the N urse J ob S tressor S cale. The participants had moderate levels of emotional exhaustion (mean score 23.95 ± 11.11) and depersonalization (mean score 7.90 ± 6.58) and a high level of reduced personal accomplishment (mean score 27.51 ± 10.96). Both personal and environmental factors were correlated with nurse burnout; however, personal factors played bigger roles in predicting personal accomplishment, whereas environmental factors played bigger roles in predicting emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. In order to reduce nurse job burnout effectively, administrators should pay more attention to the improvement of nurses' self‐efficacy and professional nursing practice environment and the reduction of stressors.