Investigation of job burnout of male nurses in comprehensive tertiary hospitals

Abstract

Objective To investigate the job burnout situation and its demographic influencing factors of male nurses in comprehensive tertiary hospitals.Methods Convenience sample,Chinese maslach burnout inventory (CMBI) as well as self-designed questionnaire were used to investigate 190 male nurses in 10 comprehensive tertiary hospitals in Wuhan Province.Results 96 male nurses out of 190 had job burnout (50.5％),among which 70 (36.8％) had mild burnout,24 ( 12.6％ ) had moderate burnout and 2 ( 1.1％ ) had severe burnout.The single-factor detection rates of job burnout were 27.4％ (52/190) for depersonalization,25.3％ (48/190) for emotional exhaustion and 12.6％ (24/190) for diminished personal accomplishment.Except the significant differences of the score for emotional exhaustion among male nurses of different authorized strength ( F=5.537,P＜005),there were no significant differences of the scores for each burnout dimension among other different demographic characteristics of male nurses (P＞0.05).Conclusions More than half of male nurses in comprehensive tertiary hospitals have experienced job burnout to some extent,the main manifestation is depersonalization and emotional exhaustion,and different authorized strengths have a significant effect on male nurses' emotional exhaustion. Key words: Male nurses; Job burnout; Comprehensive teriary hospital