Perception of Fatigue in Female Nurses Employed in Hospitals

Abstract

Background: Fatigue is the inability to maintain the required stamina in work capacity with consequences affecting occupational performance, health, and safety. Women are often more exposed to the risk of fatigue because they tend to be multitaskers. The present survey is aimed at determining the perceived fatigue in female nurses employed in hospitals and identifying the individual and occupational factors affecting it. Methods: This survey was conducted on 270 female nurses. The sample was selected using multistage randomized stratified multistage sampling. To collect the data, a demographic and occupational information, and Iowa Fatigue Scale (IFS) were filled using the self-report technique. The gleaned data were analyzed with SPSS16 using analysis of variance (ANOVA), T-test and, and Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: The overall score of nurses fatigue was 30.78±7.90. There was a statistically significant difference between employment status (p=0.01), husband's support (p=0.00), age (p=0.008), and work experience (p=0.02) on one hand, and fatigue. There was no significant difference between marital status (p=0.23), type of ward (p=0.59), official position (p=0.51), work shift (p=0.29), having a suckling (p=0.10), having a second job (0.25), and monthly work hours (p=0.38) and fatigue. Conclusion: Based on the findings of this survey, a moderate degree of fatigue was observed among female nurses employed in clinical wards. Also, factors such as age, being married, employment status, and husband's support have considerable impact on the perceived fatigue. This demands the application of preventive interventions to decrease fatigue in female nurses specifically for older married nurses with permanent employment.

Epidemiological Aspect of Physical and Mental Fatigue among Greek Employees in Pharmaceutical Companies: the role of Organizational Commitment and Work Satisfaction

“…Moreover, the impact of demographic as well as occupational factors on level of fatigue is in line with other research findings [30,31]. Last but not least, this study had some limitations due to its small sample.…”

Investigation of the Effect of Sociodemographic and Occupational Factors on Fatigue, Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction among Employees in the Pharmaceutical Industry

“…Singles showed higher rates of total fatigue, while widowed indicated greater satisfaction with working conditions, salary and the organization. These findings reinforce the literature that highlights the impact of marital status and family support on employee fatigue (Fradelos et al, 2014;Pourmovahed & Nasiriani, 2016). Also, laboratory/research staff displayed higher rates of physical, mental and total fatigue.…”

“…Additionally, through Harkin and Melby's (2014) research into emergency department nurses and clinical nurses, work-related factors, gender, age, marital status, and the number of hours worked per week were significant in terms of their association with occupational fatigue. On the other hand, a recent study on fatigue in female nurses showed that they had high rates of fatigue, while it appeared that work fatigue was affected by their employment status, age, husband support and work experience, but not by their marital status, official position, work shift, having a suckling or having a second job (Pourmovahed & Nasiriani, 2016).…”

“…Summarizing the literature, it has been shown that some of the factors that determine the relationship between fatigue, organizational commitment and job satisfaction are work schedules and shifts (Han, Trinkoff, & Geiger-Brown, 2014), mentally and/or physically challenging tasks (Barker & Nussbaum, 2011;Pourmovahed & Nasiriani, 2016), work-family conflicts (Bakker, Demerouti, & Dollard, 2008;Ilies et al, 2015), stress (Stokes & Kite, 2017), low salary (Tang et al, 2019), social support (Ariapooran, 2014), equipment, quality condition of buildings, staffing with human resources and logistics infrastructure of workplaces (Fagermoen, 1997;Forrest, 1989;Tang et al, 2019). The association of sociodemographic as well as organizational factors with job satisfaction has been also indicated in other studies (Buker & Dolu, 2010;Sarminah, 2006).…”

Demographic and Occupational Factors Affecting Fatigue and Social Support among Nurses in the Emergency Department: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…Work-related factors and personal factors of gender, age, marital status and number of hours worked per week were significant (p<.05) in their association with occupational fatigue. In the research conducted by Zahra Pourmovahed and KhadijehNasiriani [10] regarding the perception of fatigue in female nurses, the total score of fatigue was 30.78±7.90. There was a statistically significant difference between employment status (p = 0.01), spousal support (p = 0.00), age (p = 0.008) and work experience (p = 0.02) on one side, and fatigue.…”