Table 1.
Basic characteristics of included studies.
| Reference | Study design | Date collection | Country | Instruments | Subjects | Stress level (incidence rate) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Medium | High | ||||||
| Cai H (2019) | Cross-sectional | January 2019 | China | Occupational stress source. | 58 | 18.9% | 62% | 15.5% |
| Questionnaire (Li Xiaomei) | ||||||||
| Tan CQ (2015) | Cross-sectional | October to December 2014 | China | Stress questionnaire | 59 | 8.47% | 37.28% | 54.23% |
| Self-designed | ||||||||
| Liang TY (2015) | Cross-sectional | Not reported | China | Emergency nurses stress questionnaire | 514 | 6.8% | 39.5% | 45.9% |
| Self-designed | ||||||||
| Su TT (2016) | Cross-sectional | March to May 2016 | China | Occupational stress source | 127 | Medium-high: 61.42% | ||
| Questionnaire (Li Xiaomei) | ||||||||
| Jin J (2019) | Cross-sectional | Not reported | China | Stress questionnaire self-designed | 44 | 43.18% | 22.7% | 27.27% |
| Yan HM (2015) | Cross-sectional | Not reported | China | Stressors questionnaire self-designed | 137 | 38.69% | 29.23% | 20.44% |
| Liu Y (2016) | Cross-sectional | October 2013 to December 2015 | China | Stress Questionnaire self-designed | 98 | 31.63% | 48.98% | 12.24% |
| Ma LJ (2012) | Cross-sectional | Not reported | China | Occupational stress source | 136 | 36.03% | 47.79% | 16.17% |
| Questionnaire (Li Xiaomei) | ||||||||
| Yang Q (2008) | Cross-sectional | Not reported | China | Occupational stress source | 120 | 36.7% | ||
| Questionnaire (Li Xiaomei) | ||||||||
| Wang JL (2008) | Cross-sectional | January, 2007 | China | Occupational stress source | 116 | 15.52% | ||
| Questionnaire (Li Xiaomei) | ||||||||
| He LY (2004) | Cross-sectional | Not reported | China | Stress questionnaire self-designed | 134 | 35% | ||
| Zhang XY (2006) | Cross-sectional | July,2005 | China | Stress questionnaire self-designed | 68 | 3.4% | 6.5% | 46.5% |
| Cao XX (2007) | Cross-sectional | December 2006 to February 2007 | China | Stress questionnaire self-designed | 124 | 16.1% | 71% | 13% |
| Yang J (2015) | Cross-sectional | November to December 2014 | China | Occupational stress source | 140 | 31% | 69% | |
| Questionnaire (Li Xiaomei) | ||||||||
| Zhang YR (2021) | Cross-sectional | January 2018 to June 2019 | China | Chinese nurses work | 262 | 15.27% | 48.85% | 35.88% |
| Stressors Scale (Wang Shu) | ||||||||
| Xu YJ (2020) | Cross-sectional | March to April 2019 | China | Occupational stress source | 453 | 3.31% | 52.1% | 44.59% |
| Questionnaire (Li Xiaomei) | ||||||||
| Johansen ML (2016) | Cross-sectional study | 2009 to 2010 | USA | Expanded nursing work stress scale (ENSS) | 222 | 73% | ||
| Tavakoli N (2018) | Cross-sectional study | 2017 | Tehran, Iran | The hospital stress scale (HSS-35) | 709 | 10.5% | 80.3% | 9.2% |
| Singh GP (2013) | Cross-sectional study | Not reported | India | Self-estimation scale | 52 | 12.8% | 65.11% | 20.93% |
| Perceived stress scale | 68.2% | 19% | ||||||
| Hendy A (2020) | Cross-sectional investigation | Not reported | Egypt | Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) | 374 | 13.4% | 52.1% | 26.2% |
| Chao Wu (2020) | Cross-sectional | Between March and May 2019 | China | Chinese Perceived Stress Scales | 346 | 3.47% | 44.8% | 51.73% |