Work related stress, burnout, job satisfaction and general health of nurses: A follow‐up study
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Nurses experience high levels of work related stress and burnout as well as low job satisfaction and poor general health owing to the nature of their work. This paper seeks to provide a better understanding of the nature of relationships between work related stress, burnout, job satisfaction and general health of nurses over one year. This study involved a longitudinal design. Two hundred and seventy seven nurses from four hospitals completed a follow up survey consisting of five questionnaires. Data were collected between 2013 and 2014. The data were analysed using generalized estimation equation analysis. Lack of support was associated with burnout, patient care was associated with job satisfaction and staff issues were associated with general health of nurses. Burnout is more strongly related to job satisfaction than general health. The findings of this study could inform evidence based policy and practice through interventions aimed at improving job satisfaction and reducing the impact of burnout on general health of nurses.
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Stress resulting from patient care is associated with a composite burnout score.
“Stress resulting from patient care was associated with a composite burnout score [73]”
From Burnout in nursing: a theoretical review. (2020) · cites this paper as [73]
Overtime is not consistently associated with burnout (refuted in Table 1).
“| Overtime | | | √ | |”
From Burnout in nursing: a theoretical review. (2020) · cites this paper as [73]
Job demands were not associated with burnout in one study.
“According to one study, job demands were not associated with burnout [73]”
From Burnout in nursing: a theoretical review. (2020) · cites this paper as [73]
Staff issues predict burnout measured with a composite score.
“staff issues predicted burnout measured with a composite score [73]”
From Burnout in nursing: a theoretical review. (2020) · cites this paper as [73]
Pay has no effect on any MBI dimension.
“In one study, no effect was found on any MBI dimension [73]”
From Burnout in nursing: a theoretical review. (2020) · cites this paper as [73]
Emotional Exhaustion is a significant predictor of general health.
“Emotional Exhaustion was a significant predictor of general health [73]”
From Burnout in nursing: a theoretical review. (2020) · cites this paper as [73]
Emotional Exhaustion only is associated with increased odds to report job dissatisfaction in four studies.
“while four studies reported that Emotional Exhaustion only was associated with increased odds to report job dissatisfaction [73, 82, 88, 100]”
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Background
- Authors
- Khamisa, N., Peltzer, K., Ilic, D., & Oldenburg, B.
- Affiliations
- IIE MSA (ZA)
- Human Sciences Research Council (ZA)
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University Melbourne Australia
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Khamisa, Natasha
- Venue
- International Journal of Nursing Practice
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-05-30
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 538-545
- ISSN
- 1322-7114 (ISSN-L)
- 1440-172X
- OpenAlex
- W2418739334
- Cited by
- 209
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 19 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 17
- FWCI
- 49.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Journal of Nursing Practice (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Monash South Africa (230059-9999)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Occupational Health and Burnout
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Keywords
- occupational stress, burnout, job satisfaction, health status, nurses, lack of support, hospital nursing workforce
- MeSH terms
- Burnout, Professional, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Job Satisfaction, Nursing Staff
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