Purpose: This study is a descriptive research study to develop the Nurse’s Humor Questionnaire, and then analyze humor’s appreciation and use by Korean nurses.
Method: The three stages used to develop the questionnaire were to make a conceptual framework, make an open questionnaire through the 2nd preliminary inquiry, and make a structured questionnaire based on collected statements through the developed open questionnaire. The subjects that carried out completely a structured questionnaire were 337 nurses.
Result: 1) The final developed questionnaire consists of 6 domains and 67 items. The reliability of ’When feeling humor’s expression’(α=0.7079), ’The barrier factors of humor’s use’(α=0.7895), and ’Humor’s values’(α=0.8336) was high. 2) The results related to Humor’s values of nurses that showed significant differences were as follow: ⑴ age, marital status, and current position ⑵ a negative correlation between stress and humor’s values ⑶ humor’s sources: daily life and conversation ⑷ frequency of used humor ⑸ types of used humor: word humor, imitation, adequate situation and technical terms, and ⑹ when using humor’s expression: tense atmosphere, awkward atmosphere and adequate situation.
Conclusion: The developed tool can be used for understanding nurse’s humor. This will help to develop the humor program as a nursing intervention for health promotion.
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