THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A TRAINING WORKSHOP ON BURNOUT IN NURSES.
Contributors: Ball State University.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Psychology, General.
Description: The effectiveness of a training workshop to combat burnout in nurses was investigated in this study. An attempt also was made to determine whether or not benefits of that workshop would be mantained over a three month period.

Burnout is a phenomenon which affects those in the helping professions. Much has been written of a descriptive nature but little has been done to empirically determine procedures which might reduce burnout in those who are already experiencing it.

Ninety-five staff nurses, representing two hospitals, volunteered to paticipate in this study. One hospital was a neuropsychiatric facility and the other was a general hospital.

The dependent vaiable for this study was a burnout score as determined by the Staff Burnout Scale for Health Professionals (SBS-HP). This is a 30 item self-assessment inventory, which addresses cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and physiological reactions.

Subjects were randomly assigned to either a treatment condition or a control condition. The experimental group attended a 7 1/2 hour workshop which utilized didactic presentations, group discussion and problem solving, audio-visual material, self-assessment, training in progressive relaxation, an introduction to cognitive restructuring, and the development of social support systems.

The research design chosen was a one-way or single factor design utilizing a test and retest of the SBS-HP. The method of data analysis was a one-way multivariate analysis of variance with a step-down F test. The selected level of significance was .05.

The null hypothesis was not rejected. There was no significant difference between the treatment group and the control group on the long-term posttest after covarying the short-term posttest scores. Also, there was no significant difference between the treatment group and the control group on the short-term posttest.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-07, Section: B, page: 2296.

Thesis (PH.D.)--BALL STATE UNIVERSITY, 1984.

School code: 0013.