Sharps injuries and job burnout: A cross‐sectional study among nurses in China

Shuhui Wang, Lin Yao, Shixue Li, Yan Liu, Haiyan Wang and Yu Sun

Nursing & Health Sciences, 2012, vol. 14, issue 3, 332-338

Abstract: The present study investigated the relationship between sharps injuries and job burnout in nurses. Sharps injury questionnaires and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) questionnaires were used to investigate and analyze job burnout among 468 nurses, of which 458 effective questionnaires were collected, for a response rate of 97.86%. A total of 292 nurses had at least one sharps injury (63.76% of the 458 nurses). The dimension scores were higher for injured nurses compared with non‐injured nurses. The difference between the dimensions of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization for nurses with sharps injuries was statistically significant (P

Date: 2012
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