2017 Volume 21 Issue 1 Pages 52-60
This study aimed to examine nursing care leaders’ stress and stress related factors.
A survey was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire sent to 661 nursing care leaders of 245 special nursing homes for the elderly and small-scale and multifunctional type in-home care facilities that were randomly selected in the seven largest cities in Japan. The questionnaire comprised items on the characteristics of the participants, those of the workplace, the workplace interpersonal relationships and the degree of job stress.
The effective response rate was 21.3% (N=141). The average of nursing care leaders’ job stress score was 19.8±6.1. This was higher than other occupations. The factors contributing to nursing care leaders’ job stress were facility type, employment type, proportion of individuals with dementia, proportion of individuals requiring level-4 nursing care or higher, and proportion of new employees. Personal factors and interpersonal relationships were not shown to be significantly related to stress.
To reduce the stress of nursing care leaders, it is necessary to improve the policy on working conditions and environment for elderly nursing care institutes.
