Center for General Education, Tajen University, Taiwan.
J Occup Health. 2011;53(5):377-83. doi: 10.1539/joh.11-0054-fs. Epub 2011 Jul 20.
To determine work stress, and stress-coping strategies, and to analyze their the relationships in order to improve health-promoting lifestyle of nurses in Taiwan.
Three hundred eighty-five nurses who had work experience for more than 6 mo, were selected from four district hospitals in Kaohsiung and Ping Tung. We used a stratified cluster random sampling method for the selection. The nurses answered a self-report questionnaire, which was categorized into four sections: personal background data, work stress, stress-coping strategies, and health-promoting lifestyle.
The findings indicate work stress and the health promoting lifestyle of nurses are at a higher level, with stress-coping strategies being at a medium level. Work stress and stress-coping strategies were significantly and positively correlated. Professional relationships, managerial role, personal responsibility, and recognition of work stress and the responsibilities of a health-promoting lifestyle were negatively correlated. Managerial role, personal responsibility, and organizational atmosphere of work stress as well as realization, an item of health-promoting lifestyle, were negatively correlated. Recognition of work stress and stress management, items of health-promoting lifestyle, were negatively correlated. Health responsibility, and self-actualization, items of health-promoting lifestyle, as well as stress-coping strategies were negatively correlated. Nutrition, an item of health-promoting lifestyle, and the support stress-coping strategy was negatively correlated.
Nurses have greater work pressure and better work stress-coping strategies, but worse health responsibility and realization of a health-promoting lifestyle. We suggest hospitals build good relationships and appropriately increase employment of nurses through a good work atmosphere to achieve nurses' realization of a health-promoting lifestyle.
了解护理人员工作压力、因应策略现况及其相关性，以提升护理人员健康促进生活型态。
采用立意抽样，于高雄市及屏东县 4 家区域医院，抽取工作经验 6 个月以上之护理人员 385 名为研究对象。研究工具包括一般资料问卷、工作压力源量表、因应策略量表及健康促进生活型态量表。
护理人员工作压力与健康促进生活型态属中上程度，因应策略则属中等程度。工作压力与因应策略呈显著正相关，专业关系、管理角色、个人责任感与工作压力认知及健康促进生活型态各层面呈负相关，工作压力之管理角色、个人责任感、组织气氛及健康促进生活型态之实践、实现层面呈负相关，工作压力认知及健康促进生活型态之压力管理层面呈负相关，健康责任及自我实现层面与因应策略呈负相关，健康促进生活型态之营养层面与因应策略呈负相关。
护理人员工作压力较大、因应策略较好，但健康责任与实现程度较低，建议医院营造良好工作气氛，增进护理人员对工作的认同，适度增加人力，以提升护理人员健康促进生活型态的实践。
