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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2015.16.7.4745

Relationship between Job Stress and Health Status(SF-36) Among General Hospital Nurses  

Lim, Yeon-Hee (Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Chungnam National University)
Cho, Young-Chae (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Chungnam National University School of Medicine)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.16, no.7, 2015 , pp. 4745-4757 More about this Journal
Abstract
This research has been conducted to understand relations in general hospital nurses health level (SF-36), sociodemographic characteristics, health related factors, job related factors, and job stress. The subjects of the research are 572 nurses who are working in six different general hospitals with 250 beds. Data which has been collected from self administered questionnaire during the period from May 1st, 2014 to may 31th. The result has described, the health level(SF-36) of nurses has strong relation to sociodemographic characteristics, health related factors, job related factors, and even job stress. Especially the health level (SF-36) of nurses has risen when the nurses have less job stress, lower job pressure and more support from supervisor and coworkers. Therefore, the primary things to create are system development and atmosphere which controls the nurses' job stresses. Moreover, it is also important to develop programs for nurses' career satisfaction.
Keywords
Nurse; Job stress; Health status(SF-36); General hospital;
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