Perceived Family Function and Associated Predictors in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study
BackgroundNurses play a key role in the health care system. However, clinical nurses experience different kinds of stressors that might impact the nurses' quality of life or quality of care. Family is one of the main social support resources, and quality family function might improve the qualit...
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| author | Wen Zeng Wen Zeng Qian Fang Cui Wang Beibei Tong Dan Li Ziqiu Zou Peiyuan Liu Yuanrong Yao Shaomei Shang |
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| description | BackgroundNurses play a key role in the health care system. However, clinical nurses experience different kinds of stressors that might impact the nurses' quality of life or quality of care. Family is one of the main social support resources, and quality family function might improve the quality of care provided by nurses. However, evidence on family function in Chinese clinical nurses is quite limited.ObjectivesThe current study was to evaluate the family function of the Chinese clinical nurses, and to explore associated predicting factors.MethodsA multi-center cross-sectional anonymous online survey was carried out. Chinese Family Function Scale was used in the study. Spearman's rank correlation analysis, Mann-Whitney U test, or Kruskal-Wallis H test was performed in the univariate analysis. The pairwise comparison method was used to determine whether the difference was significant between pair groups. Categorical regression (optimal scaling regression) was the main method to analyze factors that had been confirmed to be statistically significant in the univariate analysis.ResultsNineteen thousand four hundred and twenty-two nurses completed the online questionnaires. The median of the nurse's perceived family function score was three (Inter-quartile Range: IQR 2–5). The multivariate analysis showed that the highest education level (P <0.001), the hospital level (P <0 .001), rotation shift status (P <0.001), working department (P < 0.001), number of children (P < 0.001), monthly income per family member (P < 0.001) were significantly associated with family function. Moreover, the importance of the factors was the number of children (49.1%), monthly income per family member (20.7%), rotation shift status (12.4%), the highest education level (8.0%), the hospital level (7.6%), and working department (2.4%) in turn.ConclusionsThe family function was associated with multiple factors, which hints that managers, leaders, and government could make strategies to improve nurses' family function in order to lead nurses to make a balance between family and work. Policymakers, nursing managers, and employers should make strategies such as promoting children-care services, increasing nurses' income, educating and training enough nurses, and building a well-established system of career development to help clinical nurses improve their family function so that to improve the quality of care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e1ae48d7aad84e17bfbb9ed4111c41ba2022-12-22T02:33:11ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402022-06-011310.3389/fpsyt.2022.904581904581Perceived Family Function and Associated Predictors in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional StudyWen Zeng0Wen Zeng1Qian Fang2Cui Wang3Beibei Tong4Dan Li5Ziqiu Zou6Peiyuan Liu7Yuanrong Yao8Shaomei Shang9School of Nursing, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaGuizhou Provincial People's Hospital, Guiyang, ChinaGuizhou Provincial People's Hospital, Guiyang, ChinaSchool of Nursing, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Nursing, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Nursing, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Nursing, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Nursing, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaGuizhou Provincial People's Hospital, Guiyang, ChinaSchool of Nursing, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaBackgroundNurses play a key role in the health care system. However, clinical nurses experience different kinds of stressors that might impact the nurses' quality of life or quality of care. Family is one of the main social support resources, and quality family function might improve the quality of care provided by nurses. However, evidence on family function in Chinese clinical nurses is quite limited.ObjectivesThe current study was to evaluate the family function of the Chinese clinical nurses, and to explore associated predicting factors.MethodsA multi-center cross-sectional anonymous online survey was carried out. Chinese Family Function Scale was used in the study. Spearman's rank correlation analysis, Mann-Whitney U test, or Kruskal-Wallis H test was performed in the univariate analysis. The pairwise comparison method was used to determine whether the difference was significant between pair groups. Categorical regression (optimal scaling regression) was the main method to analyze factors that had been confirmed to be statistically significant in the univariate analysis.ResultsNineteen thousand four hundred and twenty-two nurses completed the online questionnaires. The median of the nurse's perceived family function score was three (Inter-quartile Range: IQR 2–5). The multivariate analysis showed that the highest education level (P <0.001), the hospital level (P <0 .001), rotation shift status (P <0.001), working department (P < 0.001), number of children (P < 0.001), monthly income per family member (P < 0.001) were significantly associated with family function. Moreover, the importance of the factors was the number of children (49.1%), monthly income per family member (20.7%), rotation shift status (12.4%), the highest education level (8.0%), the hospital level (7.6%), and working department (2.4%) in turn.ConclusionsThe family function was associated with multiple factors, which hints that managers, leaders, and government could make strategies to improve nurses' family function in order to lead nurses to make a balance between family and work. Policymakers, nursing managers, and employers should make strategies such as promoting children-care services, increasing nurses' income, educating and training enough nurses, and building a well-established system of career development to help clinical nurses improve their family function so that to improve the quality of care.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.904581/fulldeterminantfamily functionnursepredictorscross-sectional study |
| spellingShingle | Wen Zeng Wen Zeng Qian Fang Cui Wang Beibei Tong Dan Li Ziqiu Zou Peiyuan Liu Yuanrong Yao Shaomei Shang Perceived Family Function and Associated Predictors in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study Frontiers in Psychiatry determinant family function nurse predictors cross-sectional study |
| title | Perceived Family Function and Associated Predictors in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study |
| title_full | Perceived Family Function and Associated Predictors in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study |
| title_fullStr | Perceived Family Function and Associated Predictors in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Perceived Family Function and Associated Predictors in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study |
| title_short | Perceived Family Function and Associated Predictors in Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study |
| title_sort | perceived family function and associated predictors in nurses a cross sectional study |
| topic | determinant family function nurse predictors cross-sectional study |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.904581/full |
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