The Relationship between Mental Pressure and Job Burnout of Nurses Working in the Centers of Mentally Disabled Adults

Objectives: Nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers are encountered with high pressures and stresses and the objective of this study is the investigation of the relationship between the mental pressure of the nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers and their job burnout....

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Main Author: Sedighe Bakhtiari Shahri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Negah Institute for Scientific Communication 2012-10-01
Series:Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
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Online Access:http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-231-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1
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description Objectives: Nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers are encountered with high pressures and stresses and the objective of this study is the investigation of the relationship between the mental pressure of the nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers and their job burnout. Methods: This study was done on 180 nurses of different shifts of Nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers of Mashhad in different shifts and the data were analyzed by job stress questionnaires based on likert scale and job burnout in Guttman scale and by Pearson correlation coefficient and SPSS software. Results: The results showed that in all nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers, there was a significant relationship between the stress of job roles and burnout and the stress of personal pressures and burnout and the amount of using the resources to cope with their job stress and burnout. Discussion: Based on the results of this study we can conclude that as nursing job in mentally disabled adults’ centers is of high mental pressure jobs, the stress of this job causes different burnouts including job burnout.
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spelling doaj.art-d9a088f251af4bf7a2ba4bcfc5eba07f2022-12-21T19:39:56ZengNegah Institute for Scientific CommunicationIranian Rehabilitation Journal1735-36021735-36102012-10-011022629The Relationship between Mental Pressure and Job Burnout of Nurses Working in the Centers of Mentally Disabled AdultsSedighe Bakhtiari Shahri0 Department of Educational Management, Mashhad Branch, University of Applied Sciences and Technology, Mashhad, Iran. Objectives: Nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers are encountered with high pressures and stresses and the objective of this study is the investigation of the relationship between the mental pressure of the nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers and their job burnout. Methods: This study was done on 180 nurses of different shifts of Nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers of Mashhad in different shifts and the data were analyzed by job stress questionnaires based on likert scale and job burnout in Guttman scale and by Pearson correlation coefficient and SPSS software. Results: The results showed that in all nurses of mentally disabled adults’ centers, there was a significant relationship between the stress of job roles and burnout and the stress of personal pressures and burnout and the amount of using the resources to cope with their job stress and burnout. Discussion: Based on the results of this study we can conclude that as nursing job in mentally disabled adults’ centers is of high mental pressure jobs, the stress of this job causes different burnouts including job burnout.http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-231-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1Mentally disabled adults’ nurses Stress Job burnout Mentally disabled people Management rehabilitation
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The Relationship between Mental Pressure and Job Burnout of Nurses Working in the Centers of Mentally Disabled Adults
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
Mentally disabled adults’ nurses
Stress
Job burnout
Mentally disabled people
Management rehabilitation
title The Relationship between Mental Pressure and Job Burnout of Nurses Working in the Centers of Mentally Disabled Adults
title_full The Relationship between Mental Pressure and Job Burnout of Nurses Working in the Centers of Mentally Disabled Adults
title_fullStr The Relationship between Mental Pressure and Job Burnout of Nurses Working in the Centers of Mentally Disabled Adults
title_full_unstemmed The Relationship between Mental Pressure and Job Burnout of Nurses Working in the Centers of Mentally Disabled Adults
title_short The Relationship between Mental Pressure and Job Burnout of Nurses Working in the Centers of Mentally Disabled Adults
title_sort relationship between mental pressure and job burnout of nurses working in the centers of mentally disabled adults
topic Mentally disabled adults’ nurses
Stress
Job burnout
Mentally disabled people
Management rehabilitation
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