title: The Nurses' Well-Being Index and Factors Influencing This Index among Nurses in Central China: A Cross-Sectional Study.
abstract: A discussion and analysis of factors that contribute to nurses' happiness index can be useful in developing effective interventions to improve nurses' enthusiasm, sense of honor and pride and to improve the efficiency and quality of medical services.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this study, 206 registered nurses at the 2011 annual encounter for 12 Hanchuan hospitals completed a questionnaire survey that covered three aspects of the well-being index and thus served as a comprehensive well-being and general information tool.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Based on their index score, the nurses' overall happiness level was moderate. The dimensions of the happiness index are listed in descending order of their contribution to the nurses' comprehensive happiness levels: health concerns, friendly relationships, self-worth, altruism, vitality, positive emotions, personality development, life satisfaction and negative emotions. Four variables (positive emotion, life satisfaction, negative emotions, and friendly relationships) jointly explained 47.80% of the total variance of the happiness index; positive emotions had the greatest impact on the happiness index.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Appropriate nursing interventions can improve nurses' happiness index scores, thereby increasing nurses' motivation and promoting the development of their nursing practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430071, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Runtang
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Ningbo College of Health Sciences, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315100, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.affiliation: Center of Health Administration and Development Studies, Hubei University of Medicine, Shiyan, Hubei, 442000, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430071, P. R. China.|Global Health Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430071, P. R. China.|Global Health Institute, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430072, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Chuanhua
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult