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Female nurses’ burnout symptoms : No association with the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid (HPT) axis
Guo, Yufang Lam, Louisa Luo, Yuanhui Plummer, Virginia Cross, Wendy Li, Hui Yin, Yizhen Zhang, Jingping
Guo, Yufang
Lam, Louisa
Luo, Yuanhui
Plummer, Virginia
Cross, Wendy
Li, Hui
Yin, Yizhen
Zhang, Jingping
Abstract
Across the world, hospital nurses experience a high level of burnout. Exploring biochemical markers of burnout could help to understand physiological changes and may provide useful evidence for preventing burnout symptoms. The current study included 94 female nurses from one Chinese third-level hospital. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) was used to investigate burnout symptoms: emotional exhaustion, cynicism, reduced professional efficacy, as well as the burnout average. The HPT axis was tested by checking blood levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), thyroxin (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). Nonparametric tests showed that no significant difference in biochemical markers was found between the burnout and non-burnout groups. Spearman correlation analysis found that biochemical markers had no significant association with burnout symptoms, except weakly negative associations between reduced professional efficacy and blood pressure and heart rate. These findings show a rather poor correlation of the HPT axis on burnout symptoms. Expanding the biochemical index of the HPT axis, comparing well-defined samples and using longitudinal studies are recommended for further studies.
Keywords
burnout, cynicism, emotional exhaustion, hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid, reduced professional efficacy, stress
Date
2017
Type
Journal article
Journal
Psychoneuroendocrinology
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Volume
77
Issue
Page Range
47-50
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ACU Department
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
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