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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1492662
This article is part of the Research Topic Patient and Medical Staff Safety and Healthy Work Environment in the 21st Century View all 18 articles

Sex differences in burnout and work-family conflict among Chinese emergency nurses: A cross-sectional study

Provisionally accepted
Dongmei Diao Dongmei Diao *Xiaoli Chen Xiaoli Chen Luying Zhou Luying Zhou Hao ZHANG Hao ZHANG Jianna Zhang Jianna Zhang *
  • School of Nursing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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    Introduction: Work-family conflict and burnout have become pressing concerns in nursing profession. These factors negatively affect nurses' health and work performance and therefore negatively influence the quality and safety of patient care. Whereas, nursing is a femaledominated profession. Studies have found that male nurses have higher level of depersonalization dimension of burnout than female nurses. Female nurses present higher level of emotional exhaustion dimension of burnout than male nurse. This study aimed to apply sexspecific analyses to investigate the associations between dimensions of burnout and workfamily role behavior conflict among Chinese emergency department nurses.Methods: This was a cross-sectional research. A questionnaire comprising items on demographic characteristics, work-family role behavior conflict, and burnout information, was distributed among emergency department nurses from 30 tertiary hospitals across mainland

    Keywords: burnout, work-family role behavior conflict, Emergency department nurses, Crosssectional study, "conservation of resources theory" and "sex role"

    Received: 07 Sep 2024; Accepted: 12 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Diao, Chen, Zhou, ZHANG and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Dongmei Diao, School of Nursing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
    Jianna Zhang, School of Nursing, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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