title: The role of social support on occupational stress among hospital nurses.
abstract: Stress is a nonspecific reaction to everything the body needs. Although occupational stress exists in every occupation, it is seen with more frequency and intensity amongst those occupations related to human health. In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between occupational stress and social support (SS) among hospital nurses. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1144 hospital nurse in China. They were investigated with a self-administered questionnaire about socio-demographic characteristics, occupational stress and social support. A validated version of the revised Occupational Stress Inventory (OSI-R) was applied to evaluate occupational stress; SS was measured by nine questions. Logistic regression analysis was used to study the association between occupational stress and SS and adjusted for income, gender, marital status, working years, educational level, and profession. Of 1144 nurses, the majority age group was less than 30 years, and the mean age across participants was 31.8 years. Further correlation analysis indicated that score of ORQ and PSQ had a significant negative correlation with score of SS (P<0.05), and a significant positive correlation was found between Score of PRQ and score of SS (P<0.05). The univariate analysis and multivariate analysis results also revealed that high SS increased significantly with decreasing ORQ score and increasing PRQ score after controlling for income, gender, marital status, working years, educational level and job title. SS significantly influences occupational stress in hospitals nurse. We also should pay more attention to occupational stress of married and long working years nurse.
authors.affiliation: School of Humanities and Management, Wannan Medical College Wuhu 241002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jiegen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wannan Medical College Wuhu 241002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xiaohua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wannan Medical College Wuhu 241002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Quanhai
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wannan Medical College Wuhu 241002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Lianping
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wannan Medical College Wuhu 241002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jinquan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wannan Medical College Wuhu 241002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yuelong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wannan Medical College Wuhu 241002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wannan Medical College Wuhu 241002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Linghong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wannan Medical College Wuhu 241002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Zhonghua
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Nie
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wannan Medical College Wuhu 241002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Daoxia
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Wannan Medical College Wuhu 241002, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Yingshui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yao
keywords: Social support; nurses; occupational stress