Department of Work, Organisation and Society, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
J Adv Nurs. 2020 Oct;76(10):2618-2626. doi: 10.1111/jan.14496. Epub 2020 Aug 17.
To examine whether the presence of a mobile phone has a moderating role in the relationship between nurses' private life telepressure and workplace cognitive failure.
Cross-sectional quantitative study using self-report questionnaires.
Data were collected between December 2019 - January 2020. In total, 849 Registered Nurses from three Belgian hospitals completed the online survey. Data were analysed with hierarchical regression analyses and simple slope tests.
Overall, the positive relationship between private life telepressure and workplace cognitive failure was moderated by mobile phone presence. Specifically, the experience of private life telepressure did only relate to higher workplace cognitive failure when nurses kept their mobile phone nearby (i.e. in their pockets). Additional exploratory analyses revealed that this moderation effect only held among nurses in young adulthood and regardless of the notification settings of their mobile phone.
The present findings indicate the unintended risk of mobile phone presence at work as it relates to higher workplace cognitive failure in nurses who experience private life telepressure. Ensuring there are clear organizational policies and practises in place to store away personal belongings of healthcare personnel during work hours would therefore seem beneficial for hospitals.
Considering the increased presence of mobile phones nowadays, a more detailed understanding is necessary on how these devices might distract personnel in a healthcare setting. The present study gives further insight into this topic and shows that in particular nurses in young adulthood who experience telepressure towards personal messages report more cognitive failure when their personal mobile phones are present, even when they do not actually use these devices. This furnishes additional evidence in support of hospitals' formal policy to forbid personal mobile phones of healthcare personnel when at work.
检验手机的存在是否对护士私人生活电子压力与工作场所认知失败之间的关系具有调节作用。
使用自我报告问卷的横断面定量研究。
数据于 2019 年 12 月至 2020 年 1 月期间收集。共有来自比利时三家医院的 849 名注册护士完成了在线调查。使用分层回归分析和简单斜率检验对数据进行分析。
总体而言，私人生活电子压力与工作场所认知失败之间的正相关关系受到手机存在的调节。具体而言，只有当护士将手机放在身边（即放在口袋里）时，私人生活电子压力的体验才与更高的工作场所认知失败相关。进一步的探索性分析表明，这种调节效应仅在年轻成年护士中存在，且与他们手机的通知设置无关。
本研究结果表明，由于工作中手机的存在，可能会给经历私人生活电子压力的护士带来更高的工作场所认知失败的意外风险。因此，为医院制定明确的组织政策和实践，以在工作时间存放医护人员的个人物品，似乎是有益的。
考虑到如今手机的普及程度越来越高，我们需要更详细地了解这些设备如何在医疗环境中分散人员的注意力。本研究进一步探讨了这一主题，表明特别是经历个人信息电子压力的年轻成年护士，当他们的个人手机在场时，即使他们实际上没有使用这些设备，他们报告的认知失败也会更多。这为医院禁止医护人员在工作时使用个人手机的正式政策提供了额外的证据支持。
