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Burnout and general healh among nurses
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N Rasoulzadeh *   , A Aabaszadeh , F Amini , R Zafarian |
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Abstract: (13517 Views) |
| Introduction: Nurses have been found to experience higher levels of stress-related burnout compared to other health care professionals. Despite studies showing that both health of nursrs and burnout are effects of exposure to stressful working environments, leading to poor health among nurses, little is known about the causal nature and direction of these relationships. The aim of this systematic review is to identify published research that has formally investigated relationships between these variables.
Method: In this review study, the published articles from1992–2013 were assessed. In order to achieve related evidences, electronic search was done in English language by using the key words work related stress burnout general health staff nurses relationship in the following databases: CINAHL, COCHRANE, MEDLIN, PROQUEST were searched for combinations of keywords,a manual search was conducted and an independent reviewer was asked to cross validate all the electronically identified articles.
Results: Search results in multiple sites covering Of the eighty five articles that were identified from these databases, twenty one articles were excluded based on exclusion criteria hence, a total of seventy articles were included in the study sample. The majority of identified studies exploring two way relationships (n=54) were conducted in developed countries. Existing research includes predominantly cross-sectional studies with only a few longitudinal studies (n=2) hence, the evidence base for causality is still very limited.
Conclusion: Identifying relationships between job stress, burnout and general health nurses in the review were mostly two way and little emphasis on the nature and direction of the relationship was causal. This emphasizes the need for further research towards understanding causality. |
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| Keywords: Work related stress, burnou, general health, staff nurses |
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Type of Study: Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing |
Subject:
nursing
Received: 2015/06/9 | Published: 2015/06/15
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