Analysis for psychological counseling and its correlated factors in nursing staffs.

Abstract

Objective To investigate a current state of psychological counseling and its correlated factors including baseline characteristics of nurses,physiologic and psychological status,general self-efficacy scale in nursing staffs.Methods A cross-sectional study which included l350 nurses.was conducted with questionnaire.The following iterns were involred：baseline characteristics of nurses included and their current state of psychological counseling;Self-rating Anxious and Depressive Scale;General Self-Efficacy Scale;Coping style questionnaire.Results Among l350 nurses,103(7.63%)had a history of receiving professional psychological counseling,the main reason included occupation,relationship of husband and wife,education for their children.There were significant difference in history of receiving professional psychological counseling among those who had different age and state of marriage.as well as in anxious,the degree of somato-and psycho-fatigue in those who had different times of receiving professional psychological counseling(P<0.05).The nurseswith immature coping style had significandy higher rate of receiving professional psychological counseling than those with mature and mixed styles(P<0.01).Conclusions Similar as occupation pressure of nurse staffs,their matter from family should not he ignored when conducting psychological counseling too.Furthermore,those with immature coping style should be pay close attention especially. Key words: Nurses; Psychological consult; Psychologic status; Coping style