Table 4.
Differences on Burnout Dimension Scores Between Nurses Reporting Excellent/Good or Fair/Poor Quality of Care Across Six Countries
| Emotional exhaustion | Personal accomplishment | Depersonalization | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | N | p-Value | M (SD) | N | p-Value | M (SD) | N | p-Value | |
| U.S. | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| Excellent/good | 22.59 (11.62) | 9,312 | 38.25 (6.96) | 8,945 | 6.06 (5.57) | 9,777 | |||
| Fair/poor | 32.58 (10.91) | 2,135 | 34.31 (7.42) | 2,109 | 10.44 (6.85) | 2,264 | |||
| Canada | <.001 | .796 | .19 | ||||||
| Excellent/good | 17.95 (9.51) | 13,991 | 37.35 (7.13) | 13,207 | 6.19 (5.63) | 13,959 | |||
| Fair/poor | 26.14 (9.93) | 2,375 | 37.39 (7.14) | 2,225 | 6.02 (5.53) | 2,361 | |||
| U.K | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| Excellent/good | 20.74 (10.72) | 8,312 | 36.34 (7.13) | 7,451 | 6.30 (5.56) | 7,975 | |||
| Fair/poor | 28.97 (10.78) | 1,218 | 33.56 (7.71) | 1,102 | 10.00 (6.84) | 1,167 | |||
| Germany | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| Excellent/good | 14.72 (8.54) | 1,761 | 46.79 (7.02) | 1,489 | 9.36 (4.04) | 1,649 | |||
| Fair/poor | 20.87 (9.54) | 781 | 42.86 (7.85) | 695 | 11.86 (5.29) | 749 | |||
| New Zealand | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| Excellent/good | 21.27 (10.83) | 3,526 | 38.46 (6.63) | 3,130 | 5.64 (5.44) | 3,360 | |||
| Fair/poor | 30.59 (10.74) | 363 | 35.59 (7.34) | 333 | 10.31 (7.21) | 337 | |||
| Japan | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| Excellent/good | 25.66 (11.15) | 1,131 | 28.13 (8.14) | 1,093 | 6.12 (4.87) | 1,121 | |||
| Fair/poor | 30.28 (11.57) | 4,470 | 23.64 (8.19) | 4,301 | 8.50 (5.86) | 4,447 | |||
Note. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) measure was used to compare mean scores of burnout dimensions between groups of nurses reporting excellent/good and fair/poor. All nurses reporting to the survey were included in this analysis.