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Relationships between Female Nurses' Mental Health and Their Work Hours:An Examination of Nursing Management for Supporting Career Continuation

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Abstract It has been pointed out that nurses' mental health is greatly affected by medical services they must provide without mistakes and their long work hours. In order to investigate the relationships betwe...en their mental health and work hours, a questionnaire survey was conducted on nurses who work at general hospitals. The obtained data were analyzed by using the correlation coefficient, oneway ANOVA, and Multiple comparison. The average age of the respondents was 34.8±10.3 years and their marriage rate was 54.1%. The number of those who worked less than 8 hours, between 8 and 9 hours and over 10 hours a day was as follows respectively: 252, 279, and 256. The results showed that the length of work hours and the level of depression were positively correlated with significance. In terms of the relationships between the marital status and the level of depression, the depression level was significantly lower for the married than for the unmarried. Moreover, although there was no significant relationship between the length of work hours and the depression level among the unmarried, there was a positive correlation with significance among the married. In terms of the stratified analysis of the age difference, there was a positive correlation between the length of work hours and the depression level among the married who are in their 40's and 50's while there was no significant difference among the unmarried. The result may be due to the differences in their available time caused by the differences in social roles. Keywords: female nurses, work hours, mental health, depression, mutiple roles
看護職はミスの許されない病人への医療サービスに加えて、時間的負荷がストレス要因と なり精神面への影響があることが指摘されている。女性看護職の精神健康に対する労働時間の影響を検討するため、総合病院に勤務する看護職を対象に質問紙調査を行った。得られた 回答は,相関係数,一元配置分散分析,多重比較を用いて関連性の検討を行った。対象者の 平均年齢は34.8 ± 10.3 歳で,既婚率は54.1 %であった。労働時間は8 時間以下252 名,9 時 間279 名,10 時間以上256 名であった。労働時間と抑うつの関連では,労働時間が長いほど 抑うつが有意に高かった。女性労働者では婚姻による多重役割のため時間的余裕が減少する ことから婚姻状態別に検討した。その結果,未婚者より既婚者の抑うつが低く,未婚者は労 働時間と抑うつに有意な関連がみられなかったが,既婚者では労働時間が短いほど抑うつが 有意に低かった。さらに年代を層化して分析を行ったところ,未婚者では差が認められなかっ たが,既婚者では40,50 歳代で労働時間が長い者に抑うつが有意に高かった。
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