Division of Internal and Pediatric Nursing, Institute of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences with the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-211 Gdansk, Poland.
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Marciniak Hospital, 50-041 Wroclaw, Poland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Dec 14;19(24):16789. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192416789.
Health care practitioners are at highest risk of COVID-19 disease. They experience an enormous overload of work and time pressures. The objective of the study was to assess nurses' life satisfaction.
The study included professionally active nurses. The research method was an author's questionnaire and a standardized questionnaire, the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS).
The study group included 361 working nurses. The mean raw score and the sten score of the nurses' responses to the statements on the SWLS questionnaire were 21.0 (SD ± 5.6, range = 5-35) and 5.73 (SD ± 1.94, range = 1-10), respectively. It was shown that lower life satisfaction was experienced by nurses aged 51 to 60 (raw score: p = 0.003, sten score: p = 0.005), as well as nurses with secondary and undergraduate nursing education (raw score: p = 0.061, sten score: p = 0.043). Nurses who had a higher self-evaluation of the level of knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 infection experienced greater life satisfaction (raw score: p = 0.008, sten score: p = 0.022).
The majority of Polish nurses surveyed during the COVID-19 pandemic had a low or medium level of life satisfaction. The low response rate to the survey was most likely due to work overloads during the pandemic. Working in a public service profession, a nurse is exposed to stressful conditions related to protecting human health. Constant difficult and stressful situations and total fatigue experienced by nursing professionals can be the cause of a lack of motivation, occupational burnout, listlessness and mental and physical disease. Further research is necessary to assess the factors positively influencing the level of life satisfaction.
医护人员感染 COVID-19 的风险最高。他们面临巨大的工作压力和时间压力。本研究旨在评估护士的生活满意度。
研究对象为在职护士。研究方法为作者问卷和标准化问卷，生活满意度量表（SWLS）。
研究组包括 361 名在职护士。SWLS 问卷中护士对陈述的原始分数和 sten 分数分别为 21.0（SD ± 5.6，范围为 5-35）和 5.73（SD ± 1.94，范围为 1-10）。结果表明，年龄在 51-60 岁的护士（原始分数：p = 0.003，sten 分数：p = 0.005）以及具有中等和本科护理教育的护士（原始分数：p = 0.061，sten 分数：p = 0.043）生活满意度较低。对 SARS-CoV-2 感染知识水平自我评价较高的护士生活满意度更高（原始分数：p = 0.008，sten 分数：p = 0.022）。
在 COVID-19 大流行期间，接受调查的波兰护士中，大多数护士的生活满意度较低或中等。调查的低应答率很可能是由于大流行期间工作负荷过重所致。作为公共服务职业的一员，护士面临着与保护人类健康相关的压力环境。护理专业人员经常面临困难和压力大的情况以及极度疲劳，这可能是缺乏动力、职业倦怠、无精打采以及身心疾病的原因。需要进一步研究以评估对生活满意度产生积极影响的因素。
