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Factors affecting burnout in female nurses who have preschool‐age children
Author(s) -
Maruyama Akiko,
Suzuki Eiko,
Takayama Yuko
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
japan journal of nursing science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.363
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1742-7924
pISSN - 1742-7932
DOI - 10.1111/jjns.12096
Subject(s) - burnout , psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , clinical psychology
Aim This prospective cohort study aims to clarify the factors affecting burnout in female nurses who have preschool‐age children. Methods The subjects were 2151 female nurses who have preschool‐age children and work at 70 city hospitals across J apan. The questionnaires were completed by 1644 female nurses with preschool‐age children in O ctober 2010, and they were divided into a cohort to observe the incidence of burnout, which was investigated in O ctober 2011. Results At the baseline, the authors obtained responses from 1802 subjects (83.8%) who had agreed to join the study. The subjects the authors were able to investigate totaled 523, of whom 117 (22.4%) had experienced burnout. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that influencing or predictive factors in burnout were years at the present workplace, will to continue work, assertiveness, overtime work, and spanking children. Conclusion Female nurses who have preschool‐age children tend to burnout easily if they have been at their present workplace for less than 3 years, wish to quit working, respond to a child's misbehavior with spanking, are “very low” in assertiveness, or work 4–6 h of overtime per week.