Relationships between core self-evaluation, leader empowering behavior, and job security among Jordan University Hospital nurses

Nurses are facing real stressors due to patients’ needs and leaders’ demands. The aim of this study is to explore the perceived level of core self-evaluation (CSE), leader empowering behavior (LEB), and job security among Jordan University Hospital nurses in Amman, the capital of Jordan. Furthermore, it investigates the relationship between the selected variables. Differences of gender, educational level, experience, and site of work are also examined with job security. Moreover, it evaluates the contribution of CSE, LEB, gender, educational level, experience, and site of work in predicting job security among Jordan University Hospital nurses. A descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted for this study. A convenience sample of 214 nurses from Jordan University Hospital was completed the CSE scale, LEB scale, and job security scale. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and stepwise regression were used to analyze the results. The results indicate that job security is found to be at high level, whereas LEB and CSE are found to be at moderate levels among nurses. Significant positive relationships are found between CSE, LEB, and job security. Male nurses and medical/surgical floors reported higher levels of job security than female nurses and intensive care units. Finally, the results show that LEB and gender are significant predictors of job security among nurses. We suggest that managers of nurses should apply leadership behaviors in order to increase their job security and career empowerment.

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Prevalence of burnout among nurses practicing in the surgical departments of a Moroccan university hospital

International Surgery Journal ◽

10.18203/2349-2902.isj20210908 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 795

Author(s):

Loubna El Houmaini ◽

Amine Ali Zeggwagh

Keyword(s):

Emotional Exhaustion ◽

Personal Accomplishment ◽

University Hospital ◽

Hospital Nurses ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Low Level ◽

Surgical Nurses ◽

Surgical Units ◽

High Level ◽

Self Administered Questionnaire

Background: The aim of our study is to evaluate the prevalence of burnout among nurses practicing in the surgical units of a Moroccan university hospital.Methods: This is a qualitative cross-sectional observational study Conducted from July 2017 to December 2017 among nurses working in the 12 surgical units of the hospital. Nurses provided a self-administered questionnaire with socio-demographic and burnout data using the Maslach burnout inventory.Results: Among 183 nursing nurses, 130 (82 women/48 men) completed the questionnaires (71%). The prevalence of burnout across all grades was 86.2% (low level: 33.8 %, moderate level: 46.2%, high level: 6.2%). High emotional exhaustion was noted among 95 nurses (73.1%), a high level of depersonalization among 75 nurses (57.7%) and a low level of personal accomplishment among 12 nurses (9.2%). High emotional exhaustion and major depersonalization were observed together in 61 nurses (46.9%). Women appeared more likely to burnout (p=0.03). Nurses working in visceral surgical emergency unit, neurosurgery unit and traumatology orthopedics unit seemed to be more affected by emotional exhaustion (p=0.002).Conclusions: The prevalence of burnout among surgical nurses is worrying. Surgical nurses whose activity is much more related to emergencies are the most exposed. A preventive and therapeutic strategy is needed to reduce the extent of burnout.

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Association between quality of life and prognosis of candidate patients for heart transplantation: a cross-sectional study

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/1518-8345.2602.3054 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Vanessa Silveira Faria ◽

Ligia Neres Matos ◽

Liana Amorim Correa Trotte ◽

Helena Cramer Veiga Rey ◽

Tereza Cristina Felippe Guimarães

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Heart Failure ◽

Heart Transplantation ◽

Pearson Correlation ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Prognostic Scores ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Convenience Sample

ABSTRACT Objective: to verify the association between the prognostic scores and the quality of life of candidates for heart transplantation. Method: a descriptive cross-sectional study with a convenience sample of 32 outpatients applying to heart transplantation. The prognosis was rated by the Heart Failure Survival Score (HFSS) and the Seattle Heart Failure Model (SHFM); and the quality of life by the Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) and the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ). The Pearson correlation test was applied. Results: the correlations found between general quality of life scores and prognostic scores were (HFSS/MLHFQ r = 0.21), (SHFM/MLHFQ r = 0.09), (HFSS/KCCQ r = -0.02), (SHFM/KCCQ r = -0.20). Conclusion: the weak correlation between the prognostic and quality of life scores suggests a lack of association between the measures, i.e., worse prognosis does not mean worse quality of life and the same statement is true in the opposite direction.

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Burnout level and associated factors in a Sub-Saharan African medical setting: prospective cross-sectional survey.

10.21203/rs.2.14191/v2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jean-Rodolphe MACKANGA ◽

Emeline Gracia MOUENDOU MOULOUNGUI ◽

Josaphat IBA-BA ◽

Pierre POTTIER ◽

Jean-Baptiste MOUSSAVOU KOMBILA ◽

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Keyword(s):

Associated Factors ◽

University Hospital ◽

Hospital Environment ◽

Easy Access ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Middle Income ◽

Medical Context ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

High Level ◽

Hospital Center

Abstract Background: burnout in the hospital environment is a problem that affects care and training. Often explored in the high-income medical context, burnout is poorly studied in low and middle-income countries characterized by a precarious hospital situation and a high stake linked to the Millennium Development Goals. The aim of our study was to determine in medical practitioners, in a sub-Saharan African country’s medical context, the burnout level and associated factors. Methods: a prospective cross-sectional study by using a self-administered Likert-scale questionnaire addressed to doctors and doctoral medical students in Gabon. Maslach Burnout Inventory scale has been used. Burnout symptoms were defined by high level in at least one of the 3 dimensions. Severe burnout defined by high level in all dimensions. Explored factors: socio-demographic and psychometric. Multiple logistic regression has been performed. Results: among 104 participants, severe burnout prevailed at 1.9% (95% CI: 0.2% -6.8%) and burnout symptoms at 34.6% (95% CI: 25, 6% -44.6%). The associated factors with burnout symptoms: age (OR = 0.86, p = 0.004), clinical activity in a university hospital center (OR = 5.19, p = 0.006), the easy access to the hospital (OR = 0.59, p = 0.012), number of elderly dependents living with the practitioner (OR = 0.54, p = 0.012), to live in the borough where the hospital is located (OR = 0.24, p = 0.039) and to be favorable to traditional medicine (OR = 1.82, p = 0.087). Nagelkerke’s R-squared:53.1%. Conclusion: in Gabon, middle-income country, almost one practitioner in two has burnout symptoms. The young age, the university hospital center, the difficulty to access to hospital and to live in the borough where the hospital is located increase the probability of burnout symptoms. These results must put question to relevant authorities regarding health and medical education, to set up: a public transport for practitioners, an optimal primary health care system, a regulation of medical tasks in hospitals, a training in clinical supervision.

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Expanded job scope model and turnover intentions: A moderated mediation model of Core-Self Evaluation and job involvement

Management Science Letters ◽

10.5267/j.msl.2021.1.001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1473-1480 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rabia Mushtaq ◽

Riffut Jabeen ◽

Samina Begum ◽

Abdul Zahid Khan ◽

Tariq Iqbal Khan

Keyword(s):

Turnover Intention ◽

Turnover Intentions ◽

Job Involvement ◽

Moderated Mediation ◽

Job Design ◽

Working Environment ◽

Self Evaluation ◽

High Level ◽

Core Self ◽

Scope Model

Existing study was conducted to make a combined examination of the mediating role of (a) Job involvement in linking expanded job scope model (EJSM) with turnover intentions and (b) investigate how the relationship among EJSM and turnover intention is conditional based on the level of Core Self-Evaluation (CSE) in employees.700 questionnaires were circulated among the employees of education and financial sector which yields 490 returns achieving a response rate of 70%. After initial data screening 420 complete responses were available for analyses. The results exhibit that Job involvement (JI) mediates the relationships between EJCM and turnover intentions. The results of the moderated mediation depict that JI mediates the relationships between job scope and high level of CSE in employees. The outcomes delivered valuable understandings for managers and consultants, especially to Human Resource professionals who are trying to facilitate the workforce in challenging working environment through improved job design. The businesses may encourage high level of employee involvement through redesigned job scope in presence of high order personality characteristics which helps to reduce turnover intentions. This paper contributed in the literature of job design in three different ways. First, existing research makes theoretical contribution by adding new dimension in existing JSM which is flexible work time. Second, it describes how dynamic work settings may refine employees’ abilities and behaviors. Third, the research deals with a unique view in research of job design by combining personality as a moderator (i.e., CSE).

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Can We Apply WHOQOL-AGE to Asian Population? Verifying Its Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties in a Convenience Sample From Taiwan

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2020.575374 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 ◽

Author(s):

Chung-Ying Lin ◽

Jung-Der Wang ◽

Li-Fan Liu

Keyword(s):

Older People ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Measurement Invariance ◽

Factor Structure ◽

Educational Level ◽

Age Groups ◽

Asian Population ◽

Geriatric Population ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Convenience Sample

Objectives: To translate and validate a recently developed quality of life instrument (WHOQOL-AGE) on geriatric population into Chinese.Method: Using cross-sectional observational design, the WHOQOL-AGE was conducted among older people through interview. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to examine the factor structure and multigroup CFA used to examine the measurement invariance.Results: Through convenience sampling, 522 older adults (mean age = 73.42) participated in the study. Among them, 194 were males, 213 had an educational level at primary school or below, 398 were residing in the community, and 307 were aged 70 years or above. A bifactor structure (items Q1–Q8 are embedded in the factor 1; items Q9–Q13 embedded in the factor 2; and all the items embedded in an additional construct of QoL) was confirmed by the CFA in both the entire sample (χ2 = 25.4; df = 51; p = 0.999) and the subgroup sample with age 70 years or above (χ2 = 25.28; df = 51; p = 1.000). Multigroup CFAs results supported the measurement invariance for the WHOQOL-AGE across genders, having different educational levels, living in different settings and age groups. It also shows good known-groups validity.Conclusions: The promising psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-AGE were found in our convenience sample of older Taiwanese. The supported measurement invariance indicates that the older people in different conditions of gender, educational level, and living setting interpret the WHOQOL-AGE similarly. However, our results should be interpreted with cautious because of the sample representativeness.

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Development and validation of Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale

Nursing Ethics ◽

10.1177/0969733018791325 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 26 (7-8) ◽

pp. 2438-2455 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Olivia Numminen ◽

Jouko Katajisto ◽

Helena Leino-Kilpi

Keyword(s):

Internal Consistency ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Principal Component ◽

Moral Courage ◽

Face Validity ◽

University Hospital ◽

Moral Competence ◽

Good Reliability ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Convenience Sample

Background: Moral courage is required at all levels of nursing. However, there is a need for development of instruments to measure nurses’ moral courage. Objectives: The objective of this study is to develop a scale to measure nurses’ self-assessed moral courage, to evaluate the scale’s psychometric properties, and to briefly describe the current level of nurses’ self-assessed moral courage and associated socio-demographic factors. Research design: In this methodological study, non-experimental, cross-sectional exploratory design was applied. The data were collected using Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale and analysed statistically. Participants and research context: The data were collected from a convenience sample of 482 nurses from four different clinical fields in a major university hospital in Finland for the final testing of the scale. The pilot comprised a convenience sample of 129 nurses. Ethical considerations: The study followed good scientific inquiry guidelines. Ethical approval was obtained from the university ethics committee and permission to conduct the study from the participating hospital. Findings: Psychometric evaluation showed that the 4-sub-scale, 21-item Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale demonstrates good reliability and validity at its current state of development showing a good level of internal consistency for a new scale, the internal consistency values ranging from 0.73 to 0.82 for sub-scales and 0.93 for the total scale, thus well exceeding the recommended Cronbach’s alpha value of >0.7. Principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis supported the theoretical construct of Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale. Face validity and expert panel assessments markedly contributed to the relevance of items in establishing content validity. Discussion and conclusion: Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale provides a new generic instrument intended for measuring nurses’ self-assessed moral courage. Recognizing the importance of moral courage as a part of nurses’ moral competence and its assessment offers possibilities to develop interventions and educational programs for enhancement of moral courage. Research should focus on further validation measures of Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale in international contexts.

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Napping during the night shift and recovery after work among hospital nurses

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/0104-1169.0147.2532 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 114-121 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Thaís Aparecida de Castro Palermo ◽

Lúcia Rotenberg ◽

Regina Célia Gollner Zeitoune ◽

Aline Silva-Costa ◽

Ester Paiva Souto ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Night Shift ◽

Public Hospitals ◽

Hospital Nurses ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Shift Workers ◽

Occupational Characteristics ◽

Confounding Variables ◽

Health Related ◽

High Level ◽

The City

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the association between the length of napping during the night shift and the recovery after work among nurses.METHOD: Cross-sectional epidemiological study involving 1940 nurses from 18 public hospitals in the City of Rio de Janeiro. A multidimensional and self-applied questionnaire was used with information about health, sociodemographic and occupational characteristics, health-related behaviors and housework. Multiple logistic regression was applied to identify the association, adjusted for confounding variables.RESULTS: The gross analyses showed 44%, 127% and 66% higher chances of a high level of recovery after work for nurses who sleep up to two hours, between 2.1 and 3 hours and 3.1 hours or more, respectively, when compared to the nurses who do not sleep. After adjusting for confounding variables, the association only continues significant for the group that sleeps 2.1 to 3 hours during the night shift (OR=1.79; 95%CI=1.33-2.41).CONCLUSION: The association between the length of napping and the high level of recovery after work, confirmed in the present results, can be included in the studies that aim to support more appropriate policies aimed at improving the workers' work, life and health conditions, not only in nursing, but night-shift workers in general.

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Core self-evaluation and depression among caregivers of Alzheimer disease patients

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.761 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (S1) ◽

pp. S544-S544

Author(s):

E. Wojtyna ◽

A. Pyszkowska ◽

M. Cembrzyńska ◽

A. Wiszniewicz

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Alzheimer Disease ◽

Depression Symptoms ◽

Coping With Stress ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Self Evaluation ◽

Modifying Factors ◽

Competing Interest ◽

Therapy Interventions ◽

Core Self

IntroductionCaregivers of Alzheimer Disease (AD) patients suffer from chronic stress and psychophysical burden, which often lead to depression symptoms. It seems that core self-evaluation (CSE), coping with stress and social support might be modifying factors in coping with situation of caregiving.AimsThe aims of the study were to examine: (1) level of depression; (2) relationships between CSE, style of coping with stress, social functioning and depression severity among caregivers.MethodsThe study involved 60 caregivers of AD patients who were children of the sick and have been caring for at least one year. It was cross-sectional and assessed by questionnaires. Following tools were used: Core Self-Evaluation, Beck Depression Inventory, Coping Inventory for Stress Situations, Distress Thermometer and an original questionnaire assessing the situation of caregiving.ResultsA total of 51.7% of responders demonstrated severity of depression symptoms, associated to at least one mild clinical depression episode. The factors introduced to the model explained 65% variance of depression symptoms. Predictors of greater depression symptoms proved to be: low CSE (ΔR2 = 0.32; β = −0.12), low social support (ΔR2 = 0.08; β = −0.27), low life satisfaction (ΔR2 = 0.02, β = −0.26), high levels of distress (ΔR2 = 0.12, β = 0.31), coping style focused on emotions (ΔR2 = 0.12, β = 0.17).ConclusionsIn the area of caregivers’ psychological assistance and depression therapy, interventions leading to increase of CSE and providing adequate social support that contributes to better care provision and maintaining proper self-image, should be taken into consideration.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Pleasure and suffering among hospital nurses

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0820 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Cláudia Jeane Lopes Pimenta ◽

Thaíse Alves Bezerra ◽

Kaisy Pereira Martins ◽

Tatiana Ferreira da Costa ◽

Lia Raquel de Carvalho Viana ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quantitative Study ◽

Work Practice ◽

University Hospital ◽

Hospital Nurses ◽

Work Characteristics ◽

Critical Levels ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Practice Characteristics ◽

Sociodemographic Data ◽

The City

ABSTRACT Objectives: to associate pleasure and suffering indicators with aspects related to nursing work in hospitals. Methods: This is a cross-sectional quantitative study conducted with 152 nurses from a university hospital in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba State, Brazil. Data were collected through interviews, using a tool to obtain sociodemographic data, work characteristics and the Pleasure and Suffering Indicators at Work Scale. Results: pleasure living and its domains were rated as satisfactory, while suffering factors and their domains were critically assessed. Statistically significant associations were observed among pleasure and suffering indicators, and some characteristics of nurses' work. Conclusions: it was evidenced that nurses had critical levels of suffering at work associated with their work practice characteristics.

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Parental Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Toward Their Epileptic Children at King Abdulaziz University Hospital: Cross-Sectional Study (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.12697 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Abdulelah Kinkar ◽

Dalya Alqarni ◽

Abdulaziz Alghamdi ◽

Sahal Wali ◽

Nasser Alghamdi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Educational Level ◽

Parental Knowledge ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

University Hospital ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Significant Relation ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Epileptic Children ◽

King Abdulaziz University ◽

The Mean

BACKGROUND Epilepsy is a chronic disease characterized by periodic seizures that result from abnormal integrated firing impulses in the brain. It is one of the most common neurological disorders. Over the past few years, there has been increasing awareness about the effect that having a child with epilepsy has on parents and the reciprocal impact of parental knowledge and attitudes regarding epilepsy on the affected child. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess parental knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward their epileptic children. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018 by the Pediatric Neurology Department of King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A sample size of 115 of 332 parents who have a child diagnosed with epilepsy and aged 18 years or younger were recruited for this study. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 21. Data analysis was performed using an independent <italic>t</italic> test, a chi-square test, one-way analysis of variance, and correlation analysis. RESULTS A total of 115 participants answered the questionnaire; of these, 65 (56.5%) were men, with an average age of 40.3 years, and the mean age of the children was 9.0 years. Overall, 85 (85/115, 73.9%) children were taken care of by both of their parents. The mean parental knowledge score was 7.49 (SD 2.08) out of 12, and it was significantly related to the educational level of the parent (<italic>P</italic>=.004). The knowledge question that was most frequently answered incorrectly was “Diagnosis of epilepsy is usually made based on at least two unprovoked seizures.” As only 28.7% (33/115) of participants chose the correct answer, mean parental attitude score was 26.51 (SD 4.284) out of 35, and there was no significant relation with the educational level of parents (<italic>P</italic>=.13); however, it was negatively correlated with the child’s age (<italic>P</italic>=.045). Mean parental behavioral score was 23.35 (SD 4.121) out of 35, and there was no significant relation with the educational level of the parents (<italic>P</italic>=.24). The most negatively answered question for the behavior section was “I can leave my child without supervision,” with a mean score of 2.25 (SD 1.09) out of 5. Gender did not play a significant role in parental knowledge, attitudes, or behavior (<italic>P</italic>=.44, <italic>P</italic>=.77, and <italic>P</italic>=.99, respectively). CONCLUSIONS Parental knowledge in our sample still needs improvement. Therefore, more awareness campaigns should be made for the community and for the parents of affected children to create a supportive environment for the children and help them thrive and develop.

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