Table 2.

Prevalence of emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalisation (DP) and personal accomplishment (PA) related to sociodemographic characteristics in 426 ICU nurses in Liaoning province, China

Variables	Number (%)	Number of nurses having a high degree of burnout	EE				DP				PA
			Mean±SD	Low	Moderate	High	Mean±SD	Low	Moderate	High	Mean±SD	Low	Moderate	High
		68	24.55 ± 12.36	149	93	184	7.05 ± 6.50	214	101	111	35.08±9.36	154	95	177
Gender
Female	377 (88.5)	59	24.49 ± 12.58	136	80	161	6.97 ± 6.55	194	86	97	35.14±9.62	143	79	155
Male	49 (11.5)	9	25.06 ± 4.53	13	13	23	7.65 ± 6.18	20	15	14	34.69±7.12	11	16	22
p Value		0.63	0.73	0.32			0.49	0.25			0.70	0.16
Age (years, median, 25 years; interval,19–52 years; interquartile interval, 23–28 years)
<30	357 (83.8)	56	24.61 ± 12.29	123	81	153	7.18 ± 6.45	174	86	97	34.91±9.22	123	84	150
30–40	62 (14.6)	11	24.29 ± 12.84	24	10	28	6.50 ± 6.76	35	14	13	35.79±10.36	28	9	25
>40	7 (1.6)	1	24.14 ± 13.50	2	2	3	5.14 ± 5.90	5	1	1	37.71±7.68	3	2	2
p Value		0.91	0.98	0.98			0.55	0.27			0.60	0.51
Highest level of nurse education
Secondary nursing school	57 (13.4)	7	24.98 ± 12.98	19	13	25	6.49 ± 5.90	29	15	13	34.00±10.02	17	12	28
Junior college	219 (51.4)	40	25.04 ± 12.05	73	47	99	7.81 ± 6.90	101	54	64	34.68±8.97	71	56	92
Bachelor and master	150 (35.2)	21	23.68 ± 12.61	57	33	60	6.15 ± 6.00	84	32	34	36.08±9.64	66	27	57
p Value		0.39	0.56	0.47			0.04	0.15			0.24	0.10
Job rank
Nurse or nurse student	288 (67.6)	40	24.29 ± 11.97	100	66	122	7.01 ± 6.33	143	73	72	35.20±8.83	104	67	117
Nurse practitioner	95 (22.3)	22	25.51 ± 12.48	31	23	41	7.51 ± 7.11	47	18	30	34.18±10.04	28	23	44
Nurse in-charge and higher	43 (10.1)	6	24.19 ± 14.72	18	4	21	6.30 ± 6.32	24	10	9	36.30±11.23	22	5	16
p Value		0.09	0.70	0.96			0.59	0.59			0.44	0.17
Marital status
Unmarried	277 (65.0)	38	24.35 ± 12.48	99	60	118	6.96 ± 6.46	140	68	69	35.12±9.20	99	67	111
Married	149 (35.0)	30	24.93 ± 12.17	50	33	66	7.21 ± 6.59	74	33	42	35.02±9.70	55	28	66
p Value		0.08	0.65	0.67			0.70	0.67			0.92	0.71
Years of experience as a registered nurse (median, 3 years; interval, 0–32 years; interquartile interval, 3–7 years)
<5	268 (62.9)	33	23.54 ± 12.10	102	59	107	6.90 ± 6.40	137	66	65	35.43±9.21	99	61	108
5–10	107 (25.1)	27	27.38 ± 12.33	29	24	54	7.99 ± 6.99	47	23	37	33.58±8.95	30	27	50
11–19	39 (9.2)	6	23.87 ± 13.52	13	8	18	5.62 ± 5.64	23	9	7	36.15±11.22	19	5	15
20 or more	12 (2.8)	2	24.00 ± 12.15	5	2	5	6.50 ± 6.36	7	3	2	37.33±9.37	6	2	4
p Value		0.02	0.06	0.19			0.23	0.15			0.23	0.22
Years of experience as an ICU nurse (median, 2 years; interval, 0–20 years; interquartile interval, 1–4 years)
<5	332 (77.9%)	46	23.89±12.07	123	73	136	6.84±6.35	169	82	81	35.32±9.19	121	77	134
5–10	82 (19.2%)	20	27.38±13.44	22	18	42	7.83±7.18	40	14	28	33.65±9.92	26	17	39
11–19	10 (2.3%)	2	24.00±11.08	3	2	5	7.70±6.15	4	4	2	37.20±10.22	5	1	4
20 or more	2 (0.5%)	0	21.50±12.02	1	0	1	5.50±3.54	1	1	0	44.00±4.24	2	0	0
p Value		0.11	0.15	0.29			0.63	0.76			0.22	0.23

Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.