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Burnout symptoms in forensic mental health nurses: Results from a longitudinal study.
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International Journal of Mental Health Nursing . Feb2019, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p306-317. 12p. 3 Charts, 2 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Burnout in nursing staff is a major cause for turnover and absenteeism. Identifying risk and protective factors may be helpful in decreasing burnout symptoms. Moreover, research indicates that ambulatory assessments of the autonomic nervous system might be helpful in detecting long‐term stress and burnout symptoms. One hundred and ten forensic nursing staff members completed questionnaires measuring experiences with aggressive behaviour, emotional intelligence, personality, and job stress during four waves of data collection across a 2‐year period. Multilevel analyses were used to test the predicted associations and moderation effects with (the development of) burnout symptoms. Burnout was predicted by a combination of emotional intelligence, job stress, aggression, personality factors, and skin conductance, but no moderation effects over time were found. Over a period of 2 years, the model approximately predicts a change in one burnout category on the Maslach Burnout Inventory. The amount of burnout symptoms in nurses might be used as an indicator to predict turnover and absenteeism considering the increase in symptoms over time. Nursing staff who experience severe aggression and who have relatively low levels of emotional intelligence and altruism and high levels of neuroticism and job stress should be monitored and supported to decrease the risk of burnout. Staff members can be trained to increase their emotional intelligence and relieve stress to decrease their burnout symptoms and turnover and absenteeism on the long term. Ambulatory assessment might be helpful as a nonintrusive way to detect increasing levels of burnout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout prevention
*AGGRESSION (Psychology)
*ALTRUISM
*PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout
*STATISTICAL correlation
*EMOTIONS
*JOB stress
*LONGITUDINAL method
*MENTAL health services
*PERSONALITY disorders
*PSYCHIATRIC nursing
*PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*SKIN physiology
*STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
*FORENSIC nursing
*EMOTIONAL intelligence
*REPEATED measures design
*DATA analysis software
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14458330
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 134639895
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/inm.12536