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KMID : 0377619890540070455
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1989 Volume.54 No. 7 p.455 ~ p.467
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A Study on Job Stress and Burnout for the Clinical Nurses
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to classify factors influencing job stress of clinical nurses, and to identify relationship between job stress and burnout and demographic characteristics for nurses. The subjects consisted of 108 staff nurses who had worked in the Chonbuk National University Hospital, this study was conducted during 3 days from May 24th to 27th, 1989. The instruments used for this study were the Job Stress Scale developed by the re-earcher and the Burnout Scale developed by Pines´ and Aronson (1981). Analysis of data was done by the use of t-test, ANOVA, pearson correlation coeffecient,,factor analysis.
The results were as follows;
1. In the factor analysis, job stress was classified according to 14 factors and the commulative percentage of these factors was 73.9 % the 14 factors were : 1) Night duty and unsatisfactory duty conditions, 2) Lack of professional knowledge and skill, 3) Unsatisfactory´ relationship with head nurse and nursing members, 4) Inadequate reward, 5) Conflict with doctors, 6) Role conflict as a profession, 7) Conflict with patient and pt´s relatives, 8) Ineffective administrative system and support, 9) Shortage of nursing personnel, 10) Poor physical environment of nursing unit, 11) Increase of workload, 12) Emotional burden due to the limitation of medicine, 13) Miscellaneous affairs, 14) Dying patients. 2. Nurses´ perception for job stress and burnout
1) Mean score of job stress was 3.865 (Maximum score : 5). High degree of job stress is evident among clinical nurses. The highest rank of stress factor was dying patient, night duty and unsatisfactory duty condition, inadequate reward, conflict with doctor, shortage of nursing personnel.
2) Mean score of burnout was 2.680 (Maximum score : 5).
3.. Relationship between degree of job stress and burnout and demographic characteristics.
1) There was significant relationship between degree of job stress and burnout level (r = .2717, p < .002).
2) There was no significant relationship between_ nurses´ demographic. characteristics and degree of job stress.
3) Nurses´ age and working department had relation to degree of burnout significantly (age : r = .1640, P < .05, working department : r = 2.039, P < .05).
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