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Relationships among structural empowerment, psychological empowerment, intent to stay and burnout in nursing field in mainland C hina—based on a cross‐sectional questionnaire research
Author(s) -
Meng Lina,
Liu Yanhui,
Liu Hongwei,
Hu Yu,
Yang Jipeng,
Liu Jingying
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.12279
Subject(s) - burnout , empowerment , structural equation modeling , nursing , mainland china , medicine , psychology , economic shortage , cross sectional study , clinical psychology , political science , statistics , mathematics , pathology , china , law , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
The aim of the study was to explore the relationship among perceived structural empowerment, psychological empowerment, burnout and intent to stay by nurses in mainland C hina.With the shortage of nurses in many countries, including C hina, intent to stay is a dominant factor to influence the quality of care. Also, burnout is identified to negatively affect the quality of care. Empowered clinical nurse practical environment is related to intent to stay and burnout. In the current literature, there is a lack of data based on empowering environment discussing the relationship between burnout and intent to stay. The study used an anonymous questionnaire, filled voluntarily by 219 nurses from different sections in a city in mainland C hina, 2012.Structural equation modelling ( SEM ) was used to test the proposed hypotheses. Based on the SEM model, structural empowerment and psychological empowerment had significant positive effects on intent to stay of nurses and negative effects on burnout. Burnout had a significant negative effect on intent to stay. The final modified models yielded χ 2 = 58.580, P > 0.05, χ 2 /df = 1.046, root mean square error of approximation = 0.015, T ucker– L ewis I ndex = 0.996, comparative fit index = 0.998,which indicated good fit indices. Creating a positive empowering workplace can encourage nurses to stay long and prevent burnout. Therefore, higher level of empowering environment is required.