The Relationship Between Job Burnout And Sleep Disturbance Among Female Nurses: The Mediating Role Of Recovery Experience

Objective: Sleep is an essential physiological function in human normal life activities.With the acceleration of life rhythm,sleep problem has become a common problem that affects people's body and mind.As a special professional group,nurses are exposed to a variety of pressures,which will lead to sleep problems and job burnout,and then lead to sleep disturbance,eventually forming a vicious circle.As a positive psychological resource,recovery experience can help relieve nurses' negative emotions and burnout,improve their physical and mental health,alleviate job burnout and sleep disturbance.This study is the first time to explore the mediating role of recovery experience in the relationship between job burnout and sleep disturbance among female nurses,which is helpful to understand the situation of female nurses' sleep disturbance and provide theoretical basis for the intervention measures to relieve female nurses' sleep disturbance,so as to achieve the purpose of alleviating sleep disturbance and promote the physical and mental health among female nurses.Methods: A cross-sectional study with proportional sampling was conducted from February 2019 to October 2019,in the public tertiary hospitals in Shenyang,Liaoning Province of China.According to the geographic distribution of the Shenyang city,a total of 5 public tertiary hospitals were randomly selected from each region(eastern,western,southern,northern and central region).And each hospital randomly selected about 30% of the female nurses who had worked for one year or more.Using the self-designed mobile phone questionnaire,the demographic,job burnout,recovery experience and sleep disturbance were investigated.The participants' informed consent was obtained before the survey,and the effective response rate of the questionnaire was 82.15%.SPSS17.0 and amos17.0 were used for data analysis.The statistical methods included: Student's t test,Analysis of Variance,Pearson correlation analysis,Hierarchical Multiple Regression,Structural Equation Model.Results: The prevalence of sleep disturbance of female nurses in this study was 25.5%.Night shift,chronic disease,emotional exhaustion,personal accomplishment,psychological detachment and relaxation are the predictors of sleep disturbance.Among them,job burnout is positively related to sleep disturbance,and it is the most significant predictor of sleep disturbance for female nurses.And recovery experience plays a partial mediating role of the relationship between job burnout and sleep disturbance.Conclusions: In this study,the prevalence rate of sleep disturbance among female nurses is relatively lower,but as an indispensable part of health technicians,the sleep disturbance of female nurses cannot be ignored.The results of this study shown that improving the level of recovery experience among female nurses is helpful to alleviate the negative effects of job burnout and sleep disturbance.