EXAMINATION OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BURNOUT AND STYLES OF COPING WITH STRESS AT NURSES

Abstract

This investigation had been done as descriptive for examination of relationship between burnout and coping with stres methods at the nurses who work in Atatürk Univercity Yakutiye Research Hospital in Erzurum. Data of investigation had been collected October 2008 to March 2009. Sample had not been chosen for the research, alll of the universe had been taken as sample. The investigation had been completed with 105 nurses who work at the hospital and want to join this research. Question Form, Maslach Burnout Inventory and Coping With the Stress Scale (CWS) which are improved by researceher had been used to collect data. T test, Pearson correlation test, variance analysis, Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal- Wallis test had been used to appraise of data. Nurses’s average of point at the MBI is 34.2±11.0, nurses’s average of point at the CWS is 70.1±6.31. Difference between opinion of nurses about wages and emotional depletions average of points which is subsection of MBI had been found meaningful in istatistical (p= 0.01). Difference between put knowledge of nurses in to practice and average of point of personal success with emotional depletion which are subsection of MBI had been found meaningful in istatistical (p=0.01). Difference between working position and average of points of abstention which is subsection of CWS had been found meaningful in istatistical (p=0.01). Difference between working year and average of points of abstention, difference between opinion of nurses about wages and average of points of abstention had been meaningful in istatistical (p=0.05). Relationship between personal success which is subsection of MBI and abstention which is subsection of CWS had been found meaningful in istatistical (p=0.05). As a result nurses are more exposed to stress at working environment and this situation had lead to burnout at the nurses. That had been determined.

Keywords

• Burnout,stress,coping with stress

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