The mediating effect of coping styles between emergency capacity and mental workload among clinical nurses: A cross-sectional study

IF 3.8 3区医学 Q1 NURSING

International Nursing Review Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI:10.1111/inr.12985

Man Jin RN, MSN, Rong Qian RN, BSN, Jialin Wang RN, MSN, Zhongqing Yuan MSN, Juan Long RN, BSN, Li Zeng RN, MSN, Huawu Yang MMed, Dan Liao RN, MSN, Yunhui Xie RN, MSN, Xu Liu RN, BSN

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Abstract

Aims

This study aimed to examine the relationship between emergency capacity, coping styles, and mental workload among nurses.

Background

Emergency capacity, coping styles, and mental workload are all variables associated with work. Identifying the relationship between these variables can facilitate administrators to implement tailored and effective intervention strategies to improve individual performance, quality of care, and medical safety.

Methods

A quantitative cross-sectional study was carried out to investigate 605 Chinese clinical nurses in seven tertiary hospitals by using personal information form, emergency capacity scale for nurses, simplified coping skill questionnaire, and the NASA-Task Load Index.

Results

Emergency capacity and mental workload were found at moderate levels. The multiple linear regression model suggested that spinsterhood, no children, high workload, always anxiety or nervousness, and lower monthly income were the influencing factors of mental workload. Positive coping style was positively correlated with emergency capacity and negatively correlated with mental workload. Negative coping style was negatively related to emergency capacity and positively related to mental workload. Additionally, coping styles played a partial mediating role in the relationship between emergency capacity and mental workload through constructing a structural equation model, but the effects of positive coping style and negative coping style are opposite.

Conclusion

Our results showed that coping styles played a mediating role in the relationship between emergency capacity and mental workload. Managers can alleviate the mental workload of nurses by cultivating positive coping styles and improving emergency capacity.

Implications for nursing and nursing policy

Mental workload of nurses deserves more attention in medical institutions. The results of our study provide evidence for improving employee health, promoting positive behaviors, and optimizing organizational management. Nursing managers should take feasible measures to fulfill nurses’ needs for emergency capacity and coping strategies to alleviate nurses' mental workload, so as to stimulate their intrinsic motivation and positive organizational behavior.

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临床护士应急能力与心理工作量之间应对方式的中介效应：一项横断面研究。

目的：本研究旨在探讨护士的应急能力、应对方式和心理工作量之间的关系：背景：应急能力、应对方式和心理工作量都是与工作相关的变量。确定这些变量之间的关系有助于管理者实施有针对性的有效干预策略，以提高个人绩效、护理质量和医疗安全：采用个人信息表、护士应急能力量表、简化应对技能问卷和 NASA 任务负荷指数，对 7 家三级医院的 605 名中国临床护士进行了横断面定量研究：结果发现，护士的应急能力和心理工作量处于中等水平。多元线性回归模型表明，单身、无子女、工作量大、经常焦虑或紧张以及月收入较低是精神工作量的影响因素。积极应对方式与应急能力呈正相关，与心理工作量呈负相关。消极应对方式与应急能力呈负相关，与心理工作量呈正相关。此外，通过构建结构方程模型，应对方式在应急能力与心理工作量之间的关系中发挥了部分中介作用，但积极应对方式与消极应对方式的效果相反：我们的研究结果表明，应对方式在应急能力与脑力劳动之间的关系中起着中介作用。管理者可以通过培养积极的应对方式和提高应急能力来减轻护士的心理工作量：对护理工作和护理政策的启示：护士的精神工作量值得医疗机构给予更多关注。我们的研究结果为改善员工健康、促进积极行为和优化组织管理提供了证据。护理管理者应采取切实可行的措施，满足护士对应急能力和应对策略的需求，减轻护士的心理工作量，从而激发护士的内在动力和积极的组织行为。

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International Nursing Review 医学-护理

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