A Longitudinal Study of Stress in New Nurses in their First Year of Employment

Autor: Yan Fang, Jingping Yang, Mengling Zhang, Jihong Song, Rongjin Lin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: International Journal of Clinical Practice, Vol 2022 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1742-1241
DOI: 10.1155/2022/6932850
Popis: Objective. This study aimed to analyze changes in occupational stress in new nurses during the first year of employment. Methods. A prospective longitudinal study was conducted from 2020 to 2021 using one questionnaire four times on 127 newly employed nurses in a tertiary general teaching hospital in the province of Fujian. Results. The results showed that new nurses had moderate to high levels of stress in all four stages, with the highest stress level at 4 and 8 months of employment and the lowest stress level at 12 months; the differences in stress scores at different time points were statistically significant (p
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