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The Relationship Between Social Support and Depression in Recovering Chemically Dependent Nurses
Author(s) -
Sisney Kathryn Farwell
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1993.tb00765.x
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , dependency (uml) , social support , psychology , nursing , sample (material) , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology , chemistry , systems engineering , chromatography , engineering , economics , macroeconomics
The incidence of chemical dependence within nursing challenges the profession to explore the phenomena of chemical dependence and its recovery. Nurses (N=58) who were peer assistance participants were studied to examine relationships between social support and depression. Social support was found to be significantly related to depression in this sample (r =−.642, p< .001). Over half of the sample initiated chemical use prior to completing nursing education. The findings of this study imply the need for researchers to target both practicing nurses and student nurses in future research intended to further explore chemical dependency in nursing.