2023 Volume 32 Issue 1 Pages 1-9
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which the comfortable work environment in hospitals and resilience are related to the negative feelings of psychiatric nurses toward their patients. Subjects were 519 nurses working in eight psychiatric hospitals, and an anonymous self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted on their basic attributes, negative feeling toward patient frequency, comfortable work environment in hospitals, and bidimensional resilience factors. Valid responses were obtained from 234 subjects, and multiple regression analysis was performed. The results revealed significant correlations between negative feeling and the following two variables: comfortable work environment in hospitals (β = –0.23, p < 0.001) and acquired resilience-related factors (β = –0.20, p < 0.05). In conclusion, creating a comfortable work environment for psychiatric nurses, and promoting their acquired resilience were suggested to be factors that reduce the frequency of their negative feeling toward patients.
