ABSTRACT
Objective(s): to determine the major work stressors and their impacting factors on public health
nurses in Taiwan.
Materials and Methods: The sample came from 359 public health nurses working in Township
health stations in a tri-county area in central Taiwan. A questionnaire survey of self-reports of 35
stressful conditions with Likert type responses in four subscales, and the impacts of sociodemographic
variables on the major stressors were analyzed, the response rate was 74.9%.
Results: Among the four subscales of stressors, including workload, drab work content social
role and managerial structure, the workload subscale was found to be the source of most stressors for
public health nurses in Taiwan.
Conclusions: The major stressors were the diverse and complicated work content, heavy job
responsibility and too much work, these stressors usually exists on most days of the week. These results
should provide useful information for the administrators in formulating strategies to relieve work stress
in public health nurses in Taiwan.
Relation:
Asian Journal of Health and Information Sciences 4(2-3):93-102
