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0047/2016 - Empowerment, stress vulnerability and burnout among Portuguese nursing staff
Empowerment, vulnerabilidade ao stress e burnout entre enfermeros portugueses

Author:

• Alejandro Orgambídez-Ramos - Orgambídez-Ramos, Alejandro - Faro, Faro - Universidade do Algarve, Psicologia e Ciências da Educação - <aoramos@ualg.pt>

Co-author(s):

• Yolanda Borrego-Alés - yborrego@uhu.es - Universidad de Huelva, Psicología Clínica, Experimental y Social - <Borrego-Alés, Yolanda>
• Carlos Ruiz-Frutos - Ruiz-Frutos, Carlos - Universidad de Huelva, Biología Ambiental y Salud Pública - <frutos@uhu.es>

Thematic Area:

Ciências Sociais

Abstract:

The work context in Portuguese hospitals, characterized by the scarcity of economic resources, can lead to higher levels of burnout perceived by nursing staff. Also, stress vulnerability can negatively affect the perception of burnout in the workplace. However, structural is an organizational process that can prevent and decrease burnout among nurses. Consequently, the aim of the study was to examine to what extent structural empowerment and stress vulnerability predict core burnout in a sample of Portuguese nurses. A convenience sample of 297 nursing staff members from Portuguese hospitals was used in this study (return rate 62,13%). Core burnout was negatively and significantly related to all the dimensions of structural empowerment, and it was positively and significantly related to stress vulnerability. Regression models showed that core burnout was significantly predicted by access to resources, access to opportunities and stress vulnerability. Organizational administrations must make every effort in designing interventions focused on structural empowerment, as well as interventions focused on individual interventions that enhance coping skills in nursing staff.

Keywords:

empowermentburnoutprofissionalpersonalitynursing staff

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Orgambídez-Ramos, Alejandro, yborrego@uhu.es, Ruiz-Frutos, Carlos. Empowerment, stress vulnerability and burnout among Portuguese nursing staff. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2016/Jan). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/empowerment-stress-vulnerability-and-burnout-among-portuguese-nursing-staff/15469?id=15469



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