Occupational Happiness of Civilian Nurses in China: a cross-sectional study

作者：Ying Shirley Meng, Xue Luo, Peng Sun, Yu Luo, Zonghua Wang, Lihua Wang, Yuhong Ge, Li Lin · 发表于：BMC Nursing · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1186/s12912-023-01397-4 · 被引用次数：10 · 研究领域：Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout、Workplace Health and Well-being、Health, psychology, and well-being

BACKGROUND: Civilian nurses have gradually become the main body of military nurses. Our study aimed to understand their occupational happiness and its influencing factors. METHODS: This descriptive study was conducted with 319 civilian nurses working in 15 military hospitals in China. Based on literature review, expert consultation and combined with the characteristics of civilian positions, this study developed a questionnaire on occupational happiness of civilian nurses in military hospitals. The questionnaire includes 7 dimensions as follows: work emotion, salary, work environment, professional identity, work output, interpersonal relationship, well‑being. The demographic questionnaire and occupational well-being questionnaire of civilian nurses in military hospitals were analysed by t-test, analysis of variance and Pearson correlation analysis. RESULTS: The occupational happiness score (3.83 ± 0.56, upper limit score: 5) was at the upper middle level. There were significant differences in occupational well-being by gender (t = -2.668, p = 0.008), age (F = 5.085, p = 0.007) and the type of city where the hospital was located (F = 15.959, p < 0.0001). The happiness score of females (3.94 ± 0.60) was higher than that of males (3.47 ± 0.54). Nurses who were over 41 years old had the highest occupational happiness. Compared with nurses younger than 30 years old, the p value was 0.004. The occupational happiness of nurses in hospitals in a "prefecture-level city" (p < 0.0001) a...