Yanying Yang, Sujiao Liu, Min Zhou, Lihong Miao, Xuejuan Liu
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Introduction: Academic burnout is not uncommon and interferes with the role shift from nursing students to qualified nurses, aggravating a shortage of workforce in global healthcare system. However, there is currently a lack of research examining the relationship between family functioning, academic self-efficacy, and academic burnout in nursing students. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among family functioning, academic self-efficacy, and academic burnout among nursing students.
Materials and methods: This cross-sectional survey recruited 2,847 nursing students from a three-year vocational school located in Henan province in eastern China and used an online questionnaire to measure the participants' basic information, family functioning, academic self-efficacy and academic burnout. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation, multiple linear regression and mediation analyses were used.
Results: The mean (SD) score of academic burnout among nursing students was 53.98 (10.87). Family functioning (r = -0.39, p < 0.001) and academic self-efficacy (r = -0.64, p < 0.001) were negatively correlated with academic burnout. Family functioning (r = 0.46, p < 0.001) was positively correlated with academic self-efficacy. At the same time, academic self-efficacy plays a partial mediating role (indirect effect = -1.009; 95% CI, -1.114 to -0.910) in the influence of family functioning on academic burnout.
Conclusion: Nursing students with higher level of family functioning may have a stronger sense of academic self-efficacy, which could lead to a lower level of academic burnout. This finding provides important guidance for educational administrators to formulate targeted strategies to prevent academic burnout of nursing students.
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Frontiers in Medicine publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research linking basic research to clinical practice and patient care, as well as translating scientific advances into new therapies and diagnostic tools. Led by an outstanding Editorial Board of international experts, this multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide.
In addition to papers that provide a link between basic research and clinical practice, a particular emphasis is given to studies that are directly relevant to patient care. In this spirit, the journal publishes the latest research results and medical knowledge that facilitate the translation of scientific advances into new therapies or diagnostic tools. The full listing of the Specialty Sections represented by Frontiers in Medicine is as listed below. As well as the established medical disciplines, Frontiers in Medicine is launching new sections that together will facilitate
- the use of patient-reported outcomes under real world conditions
- the exploitation of big data and the use of novel information and communication tools in the assessment of new medicines
- the scientific bases for guidelines and decisions from regulatory authorities
- access to medicinal products and medical devices worldwide
- addressing the grand health challenges around the world
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