Reserch On Correlation Of Sleep Quality, Job Burnout And Quality Of Lief Among ICU Nurses

Objective:The study investigates the nurses who work in three-grade hospitals more than one yearin Changchun City, in order to understand the state of the nurses’ sleep quality, the state ofnurses’ job burnout and the nurses’ quality of life. Through the investigation on the nurses,the correlation of the nurses’ sleep quality, nurses’ job burnout and nurses’ quality of life canbe analyzed. The study can provide intervention suggestions for the sake of improvingnurses’ quality of life.Methods:From January to May2012，185the nurses who worked in three-grade hospitalsmore than one year in Changchun City,recruited to complete a series of questionnaires. Fourinstruments were used to collect data, including the demographic information, PSQI, MBI,WHOQOL-BREF. The data was entered into the Statistical Package for Social Science(SPSS)18.0for the descriptive and inferential statistical analysis of the feed backedquestionnaires. The statistical methods included descriptive analysis, analysis of variance, t-test, spearman correlation analysis.Results:1. Characteristics of job burnout,sleep quality,quality of life amongICU nurses(1) Compared with the sleep quality norm, sleep quality of ICU nurses had statisticalmeaning with significant differences (P <0.01).(2) Compared with the job burnout norm, the three areas in job burnout of ICU nurseshad statistical meaning with significant differences (P <0.01). The scores of emotionalexhaustion area and depersonalization area were higher, and the score of accomplishmentarea was lower.(3) Compared with the quality of life norm, three areas (physical health,psychologicalhealth,and social relationships) in quality of life of ICU nurses had statistical meaning with significant differences (P <0.01),but environment area had not. All these four areas’ scoreswere lower than norm’s.2. Correlation among job burnout,sleep quality,and quality of lifeJob burnout, sleep quality, and quality of life had complex correlation. In job burnout,all the three areas (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment)had highly positive correlation with each other (P <0.01). In quality of life, all the four areas(physical health, psychological health, social relationships, and environment) had highlycorrelation with each other (P <0.01). Sleep quality had highly positive correlation withemotional exhaustion area and personal accomplishment area in job burnout, and had highlynegative correlation with physical health (P <0.01) and general negative correlation withpsychological health area and environment area in quality of life (P <0.05).Depersonalization area in job burn has highly positive correlation with all the four area inquality of life (P <0.01).3. Sleep quality of ICU nurses(1) Work life of ICU nurses was positive related with sleep quality with significantdifferences (P <0.01).(2) Marital status of ICU nurses was negative related with sleep quality with significantdifferences (P <0.01).(3) Night shift cycle of ICU nurses was negative related with sleep quality withsignificant differences (P <0.01).(4) Age and appointment style of ICU nurses were not related with sleep quality (P>0.05).4. Job burnout of ICU nurses(1)Age of ICU nurses was positive related with depersonalization area with generaldifferences (P <0.05).(2)Appointment style of ICU nurses was positive related with motional exhaustion areaand depersonalization area with significant differences (P <0.01), and positive related withpersonal accomplishment area with general differences (P <0.05).(3)Night shift cycle of ICU nurses was negative related with exhaustion area andpersonal accomplishment area with significant differences (P <0.01), and not related withdepersonalization area (P>0.05). (4) Work life and marital status of ICU nurses are not related with sleep quality (P>0.05).5. Quality of Life of ICU nurses(1) Age of the ICU nurses was positive related with psychological health area withgeneral differences (P <0.05).(2) Work life of the ICU nurses was negative related with physical health area withgeneral differences (P <0.05).(3) Appointment style of the ICU nurses was positive related with physical area withgeneral differences (P <0.05).(4) Night shift cycle of the ICU nurses was positive with physical area and environmentarea with general differences (P <0.05).(5) Marital status of the ICU nurses was little related with any area in quality of life(P>0.05).Conclusions:(1) Sleep quality,job burnout,and quality of life of ICU nurse: The worse they sleep, theworse they feel in emotional,personal accomplishment, and the worse their physicalhealth,psychological health,and environment are. The worse they feel in depersonalizetion,the better quality of life they get.(2) Sleep quality of ICU nurses: The longer the work life is, and the shorter the shiftcycle is, the worse the sleep quality is. Married nurses sleep worse than unmarried ones.(3) Job burnout of ICU nurses: The older the nurses get, the worse they feel indepersonalization. The shorter the shift cycle is, the worse they feel in emotional exhaustionand personal accomplishment. Official nurses feel quite better than contract nurses.(4) Quality of life of ICU nurses: The older the nurses are, the better their psychologicalhealth is. The longer night shift cycle is, and the shorter the work life is,the better theirphysical health is. Official nurses feel better than contract nurses in physical health. Thelonger night shift cycle is, the better their environment is.