Association between perceived social support and challenge-hindrance working pressure source in clinical nurses / 现代临床护理

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the current status of perceived social support and challenge-hindrance working pressure source and explore the association between the perceived social support and challenge-hindrance working pressure source in clinical nurses. Methods The perceived social support scale and challenge-hindrance working pressure source scale were investgated in the study among 295 clinical nurses. Pearson correlation analysis was used to explore the association between the clinical nurses' perceived social support and challenge-hindrance working pressure source. Results The total score of clinical nurses' perceived social support was (62.12 ±10.48), the score of clinical nurses' challenging working pressure source was (22.63 ±3.67), and the score of hindrance working pressure source was (15.17±3.41). The clinical nurses' perceived social support and its dimensions were significantly positively related with the challenging working pressure source (P ＜0.01). Other support dimension of perceived social support was significantly negatively related with the hindrance working pressure source (P ＜0.01). Conclusions The perceived social support and challenge-hindrance working pressure source of clinical nurses are at a medium to high level. The higher level of clinical nurses' perceived social support is, the higher level of challenge working pressure sources. The family members, friends, leaders and colleagues should give more support for the clinical nurses, so as to enhance their subjective support, increase positive effect of working pressure source, promote their progress and improve their quality of nursing.