Sharps injuries and job burnout: A cross-sectional study among nurses in China

The present study investigated the relationship between sharps injuries and job burnout in nurses. Sharps injury questionnaires and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) questionnaires were used to investigate and analyze job burnout among 468 nurses, of which 458 effective questionnaires were collect...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nursing & health sciences 2012-09, Vol.14 (3), p.332-338
Hauptverfasser: Wang, Shuhui, Yao, Lin, Li, Shixue, Liu, Yan, Wang, Haiyan, Sun, Yu
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The present study investigated the relationship between sharps injuries and job burnout in nurses. Sharps injury questionnaires and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) questionnaires were used to investigate and analyze job burnout among 468 nurses, of which 458 effective questionnaires were collected, for a response rate of 97.86%. A total of 292 nurses had at least one sharps injury (63.76% of the 458 nurses). The dimension scores were higher for injured nurses compared with non‐injured nurses. The difference between the dimensions of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization for nurses with sharps injuries was statistically significant (P 
ISSN:1441-0745
1442-2018
DOI:10.1111/j.1442-2018.2012.00697.x