title: Structural empowerment, job stress and burnout of nurses in China.
abstract: To investigate the status of structural empowerment, job stress and burnout in China, and to explore the relationships among them.
  
  
  
  The questionnaires of CWEQ-II, job stressors and MBI were used to investigate 1002 nurses working at tertiary-level hospitals.
  
  
  
  The average score of CWEQ-II was 2.23±0.59. The score of EE of MBI was 29.75±13.94, PA was 27.40±11.21, both of them showed a high level of exhaustion, DP was 8.07±5.82 and showed a middle level of exhaustion. The findings showed that workload and time pressure were the most frequently encountered job stress among staff nurses, the score was 3.23±0.95; There was a significantly correlation among structural empowerment, job stressors and the level of burnout(p<0.05). Hierarchical regression analysis showed that structural empowerment had significant influence on the every factors of job stressors (p<0.05) and burnout, job stressors had significant influence on the every factors of burnout (p<0.05). Structural equation modeling analyses revealed a good fit to the data based on various fit indices (χ(2)/df=2.29, GFI=0.945, CFI=0.965, IFI=0.966, RMSEA=0.061). Staff nurses felt that structural empowerment in their workplace resulted in lower levels of job stress which in turn strongly influenced Burnout.
  
  
  
  These results provide initial support for an expanded model of structural empowerment, and offer a broader understanding of the empowerment process.
authors.affiliation: Lianyungang Higher Vocational College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lianyungang, China.
authors.forename: Jiajia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Lianyungang Higher Vocational College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lianyungang, China.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Lianyungang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lianyungang, China.
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.affiliation: Lianyungang Higher Vocational College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lianyungang, China.
authors.forename: Xinling
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.affiliation: Lianyungang Higher Vocational College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Lianyungang, China.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300193, China. Electronic address: yh_liu888@163.com.
authors.forename: Yanhui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional; D002681:China; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Burnout; Job stressors; Nurses; Structural empowerment