Exploring the Relationship Between Perceived Visual Access to Nature and Nurse Burnout
Description
Objective:This study aims to investigate the relationship between perceived visual access to nature views in nurse work and break environments and scores for subscales of Maslach Burnout Inventory among nurses.Background:Burnout is a severe problem among nurses. Literature shows a relationship between stress and burnout and between nature exposure and stress. However, the possible consequent relationship between connection to nature and nurse burnout needs further study.Methods:This cross-sectional study explored the relationship between the subscales (Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Personal Accomplishment [EE, DP, and PA]) of the Maslach Burnout Inventory as “outcome variables” and perception of view duration, frequency of exposure to views, view content and artwork content as “explanatory variables” in a subset regression model. The study model also included organizational stressors, environmental design factors, unit type, workload, and personal factors as control variables. Fifty-one nurses working in six units in a large tertiary care hospital participated in the study.Results:Percentage of perceived nature views and organizational stressors were the top two best predictors correlating with EE (37% of the EE variance; p < .05). Percentage of perceived nature views, organizational stressors, and environmental design were the top three predictors correlating with DP (43% of variance for DP; p < .05). No significant relationship was found between study variables and PA.Conclusions:The results of this study recommend perceiving nature views as an independent or integrated intervention to meditation and relaxation techniques. From a design standpoint, this study suggests that a unit and breakroom design with access to nature views could work as a consistent preventive intervention for burnout.
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Publisher
figshare SAGE Publications
DOI
10.25384/sage.c.5549450.v1
Document Type
Data Set
Recommended Citation
Mihandoust, Sahar; Roney, Jamie; Pati, Debajyoti; Lee, Jaehoon (2021), "Exploring the Relationship Between Perceived Visual Access to Nature and Nurse Burnout", figshare SAGE Publications, doi: 10.25384/sage.c.5549450.v1
https://doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5549450.v1
Identifier
10.25384/sage.c.5549450.v1
Embargo Date
1-1-2021