The Job Stress, Family Stress, Social Support and Health Status among the Married Female Nurses

• Main Authors: Li Fang, 方莉
• Other Authors: Chich-Hsiu Hung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tec3bu

博士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 護理學研究所 === 101 === This study explored married female nurses’ job stress, family stress, social support and their health status. This study used Cross-Sectional correlation design and structured questionnaires which included the questionnaire of demographic data, the job stress scale of Effort-Reward imbalance, the scale of family stress, social support scale (S.S.S.) and the Chinese health questionnaire (Chinese Health Questionaire-12, CHQ-12) . 233 married female nurses were recruited in this study from August 3, 2012 to August 19, 2012 for two weeks. SPSS（Statistical Product and Service Solutions）for Windows 15.0 was used for the number, percentage, average and standard deviation of the descriptive statistics analysis, as well as one way Anova test, independent t-test and multiple regression analyses. The results of this study showed the degree of job stress, whether over-commitment or not, the degree of social support , the degree of family stress and the number of working hours per-week affected the health status of the married female nurses. The number of working hours per-week (≧48hrs/＜44hrs), effort-reward ratio and over-commitment were the main predictors of the health status of the married female nurses. The number of working hours per week bigger than or equal to 48 hours had 4.17 times more risk of unhealthy status than that of working hours per week smaller than 44 hours. Married nurses with the ratio of effort-reward larger than 1 had 5.93 times more risk of unhealthy status compared with those with the ratio of effort-reward larger or equal to 1. Married nurses with over-commitment had 2.59 times more risk of unhealthy status compared with those without over-commitment. According to the results of this study, some suggestions are recommended: A. In the respect of nursing practice, the manager should set up scheduling rules to avoid overtime work. B. In the respect of nursing research, prospective cohort studies are suggested to confirm the cause-effect relationships among the job stress, the family stress and the health status. C. In the respect of nursing education, the medical institutions (hospitals) should include classes related to how to relieve stress and the skills related time management. Moreover, the hospital managers should provide education programs to nurse managers to let them provide assistances on family needs of the married female nurses.