Table 6.
Summary – Comparison of the burdens, resources, health and wellbeing of nurses in GPC and SPC
| Variable | GPC | SPC | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burdens | Burden due to organisational framework conditions | scale | ↔ | |||
| Quantitative demands | scale | ↑ | ||||
| Emotional demands | scale | ↑ | ||||
| Demands for hiding emotions | scale | ↔ | ||||
| Emotional burden due to death | scale | ↔ | ||||
| Burden due to care of patients | scale | ↔ | ||||
| Burden due to nursing care | scale | ↑ | ||||
| Burden due to care of relatives | scale | ↑ | ||||
| Resources | Organisational | Meaning of work | scale | ↑ | ||
| Workplace commitment | scale | ↔ | ||||
| Meaningfulness of work | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Gratitude of patients | single item | ↔ | ||||
| Gratitude of relatives | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Recognition through supervisor | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Recognition through colleagues | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Recognition through patients/relatives | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Recognition through social context | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Recognition through salary | single item | ↔ | ||||
| Social | Good working team | scale | ↑ | |||
| Family | single item | ↔ | ||||
| Friends | single item | ↔ | ||||
| Personal | Satisfaction with life | scale | ↔ | |||
| Positive thinking | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Professional attitude/dissociation | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Hobbies | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Sport | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Religiosity/spirituality | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Self-reflection | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Self-care | single item | ↑ | ||||
| Resilience | single item | ↔ | ||||
| Health and Wellbeing | Self-rated health | scale | ↑ | |||
| Burnout | scale | ↑ | ||||
| Intention to leave the profession | scale | ↑ | ||||
| Chronic back pain | item | ↑ | ||||
| Depression | single item | ↑ | ||||
Note. ↔ observed sample frequencies in GPC and SPC not differed significantly from expected frequencies or scale difference < 5; ↑ observed sample frequencies in GPC and SPC differed significantly from expected frequencies or scale difference ≥ 5 (p < 0.05)