Correlation of work burnout and stress sources of nurses in level 2 psychiatric hospital in Beijing city

Abstract

Objective To investigate burnout and stress level and their correlation of nurses at class two psychiatric hospital in Beijing.Methods Burnout Inventory ( MBI ) and work stress scale were used to survey 119 psychiatric nurses at two class two psychiatric hospitals in Beijing.Results Both burnout and stress sources of nurses with different general information showed no statistic difference (P ＞ 0.05).Psychiatric nurses'burnout scores were lower than the dimension of MBI norm ( P ＜0.01).Burnout and emotional exhaustion scores,total scores and the dimensions of nursing stress were significantly positively correlated (P ＜ 0.05 or P ＜ 0.01).The tendency to depersonification was significantly positively correlated with other four items except the workload and time allocation ( P ＜ 0.05 or P ＜ 0.01).Personal sense of achievement was only negatively significantly associated with management and interpersonal relationship ( r =- 0.323,P ＜ 0.01).Sources of work stress of psychiatric nurses in 5 dimensions from high to low is working environment and resources (2.43 ± 0.921),the nursing profession and work ( 2.42 ± 0.839 ),workload and time allocation ( 2.40 ± 0.892 ),patients care (2.37 ±0.673 ),management and interpersonal relationship ( 1.82 ± 0.708 ).Conclusions Hospital managers is recommended to take effective measures to reduce or eliminate sources of stress of nurses,emphasis on the training of coping with the working burnout,relieve the nurses working burnout,and enhance the caring quality. Key words: Nurses; Work burnout; Stress; Psychiatric hospital