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Objective: To study the relationship between compassion fatigue and workplace psychological violence, alexithymia, and empathy in clinical nurses. Methods: A total of 1 159 clinical nurses from 10 cities in Henan and Fujian Provinces were enrolled using the method of grabbing random balls. Questionnaires including Workplace Psychologically Violent Behaviors Instrument, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Jefferson Scale of Empathy Health Professionals, Professional Quality of Life Scale were used to investigate the status of workplace psychological violence, alexithymia, empathy, and compassion fatigue in participants. Bootstrap analysis was used to analyze the relationship between workplace psychological violence, alexithymia, empathy, and compassion fatigue scores. Results: The average score for workplace psychological violence among clinical nurses was (26.2±6.5), with 405 nurses (34.9%) having experienced workplace psychological violence. The scores for alexithymia, empathy and compassion fatigue were (58.3±12.3), (104.3±18.6) and (48.5±6.7) respectively. Mild compassion fatigue was detected in 34.9% of participants, while moderate to severe compassion fatigue accounted for 48.8%. Bootstrap test result showed that workplace psychological violence had a positive impact on compassion fatigue ［standardized effect value (β)=0.40, 95% confidence interval(CI)： 0.35-0.44］. Workplace psychological violence had separate mediating effects through alexithymia (β=0.15, 95%CI： 0.10-0.19), empathy (β=0.16, 95%CI： 0.10-0.21) , and a chain mediating effect through alexithymia and empathy on compassion fatigue (β=0.06, 95%CI： 0.03-0.09). Conclusion: Compassion fatigue symptoms are relatively common among clinical nurses. Experiencing workplace psychological violence directly affects compassion fatigue and can indirectly affect it through the mediating effects of alexithymia and empathy.
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Objective To explore the current status of emotional exhaustion among clinical nurses and its relationship with work stress, thought suppression, difficulties in emotion regulation. Methods A totally of 1 159 clinical nurses from 10 cities in Henan Province and Fujian Province were enrolled as the research subjects using grabbing random balls method. And their status of work stress, thought suppression, difficulties in emotion regulation and emotional exhaustion were investigated by Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale, White Bear Suppression Inventory, Brief Version of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale and Emotional Exhaustion Scale. Results The scores for work stress, thought suppression, difficulties in emotion regulation, emotional exhaustion were (23.5±3.8), (47.4±6.5), (54.1±7.2), (11.7±4.2), respectively. Among them, 40.0% of nurses experienced emotional exhaustion. Bootstrap analysis results showed that work stress positively affected emotional exhaustion among clinical nurses [standardized partial regression coefficient (β)=0.42, 95% confidence intervals (CI)： 0.36-0.44］. Work stress affected emotional exhaustion through thought suppression (β=0.16, 95%CI： 0.14-0.20), difficulties in emotion regulation (β=0.16, 95%CI： 0.14-0.19), and the chain mediating role of thought suppression and difficulties in emotion regulation (β=0.07, 95%CI： 0.04-0.09). Conclusion Emotional exhaustion symptoms are prevalent among clinical nurses. Work stress directly and indirectly influences thought suppression, difficulties in emotion regulation and emotional exhaustion of nurses.
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Objective To investigate the correlation between occupational stress,uncertain endur-ance and job burnout of pre-hospital emergency nurses. Methods A total of 380 pre-hospital emergency nurses were recruited by stratified cluster sampling method.The occupational burnout scale(MBI)including emotional exhaustion(EE),depersonalization(D)and diminished personal accomplishment(PA),the In-tolerance of Uncertainty Scale(IUS),the Nursing Stressor Scale(NSS)including stresses associated with nurse expectations(NSS1),with family(NSS2),with interpersonal relationship(NSS3),with nature of work (NSS4),with patient(NSS5)and with work load(NSS6)were applied for all subjects.Results The pre-hospital emergency nurses who had worked less than 3 years got the higher EE score(33.58 ± 4.34)and higher PA score(26.98±4.31)than those who had worked 3 to 10 year(22.33±4.05,16.14±4.28,P<0.05) or longer than 10 years(21.50±4.36,16.81±4.36,P<0.05).Nurses got higher EE score(33.82±4.28,22.96 ±4.39,21.04±4.62,P<0.05),and higher PA scores(27.02±4.21,16.04±4.31,16.01±4.30,P<0.05)than the nurse practitioner or above levels.People whose monthly income were below 0.3 million got higher PA scores than those whose monthly income were 0.3 million or more(26.75±4.24,16.47±4.27,17.11±4.34,P<0.05).People who got degrees of bachelor or above had PA scores which was more than people who got de-grees under bachelor(26.33±4.36,17.24±4.28,P<0.05).Regression analysis showed that the multiplication score between IUS and NSS1 had the interaction effect with EE and D scores(β=0.33,0.33,P<0.05); the multiplication score between IUS and NSS5 had the interaction effect with EE and D scores(β=0.31,0.30, P<0.05)and the multiplication score between IUS and NSS3 had the interaction effect with D scores(β=0.34,P<0.05).Conclusion The pre-hospital emergency nurses'job burnout varies according to their length of service,job title,educational level and salary,and is also influenced by the combination of occupational stress and uncertain endurance.
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Objective To explore the relations of the doctor-patient relationship to psychological security and stress.Methods Totally 430 operation patients were selected and followed-up.A survey was performed using the Security Questionnaire (SQ),the Patient Doctor Relationship Questionnaire 13-Item Version (PDRQ-13),the Hospital Stress Rating Scale (HSRS) Results The average score of SQ was lower than medium value in operation patients.The SQ scores of operation patients with emergency operation were 39.50±10.51,lower than those of selective operation which were 49.02±10.37 and limited operation which were 47.67±10.29 (P ＜ 0.05).The SQ scores of operation patients who didn't provided themselves were 37.33±10.10,lower than those of basically which were 40.10±10.83 and partly provided for themselves which were 43.50±10.51 (P＜ 0.05).The SQ scores of operation patients in severe group according severity of illness were 37.13±10.40,lower than those of them in mild group which were 39.19±10.24 and moderate group which were 41.38±10.01 (P＜ 0.01).The SQ scores of post-operation patients were 44.32±9.96,higher than post-operation patients which were 40.36±10.81 (P ＜ 0.01).The lack of comforts (LC),lack of information (LI) and risks of serious disease (RSD) scores of post-operation patients were 49.23±30.62,30.46±21.42,52.84±31.22,lower than those of post-operation patients which were 52.37±32.06,35.25±20.14,80.12±33.18 (P ＜ 0.05).The path analysis showed that the regression relationship between SQ scores and PDRQ scores,RSD scores was established (β=0.40,-0.26,P ＜ 0.01),and the PDRQ-13 scores was a mediator between the scores of LC,LI,RSD and the SQ scores (β=0.40,P＜0.01).The PDRQ-13 scores was a adjustor between the RSD scores and the SQ scores (β=-0.34,P ＜ 0.01).Conclusions The operation patients have a low level of the sense of security which is statistically significant with surgical types,the ability to care for themselves and severity of illness.The sense of security of post-operation patients were higher than those of pre-operation patients.The recognition of physician-patient relationship may be play a mediating and adjusting role between the sense of security and stress.The surgical stress affect patient security and physician-patient relationship.