Aging and Burnout for Nurses in an Acute Care Setting: The First Wave of COVID-19

We examined the relationship between age, coping, and burnout during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic with nurses in Texas (N = 376). Nurses were recruited through a professional association and snowball sampling methodology for the cross-sectional survey study. Framed in lifespan development theor...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2023-04, Vol.20 (8), p.5565
Main Authors: Beier, Margaret E, Cockerham, Mona, Branson, Sandy, Boss, Lisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Age
Age factors
Aging
Analysis
Burnout
Burnout, Professional - epidemiology
Burnout, Professional - psychology
China
Cognitive ability
Coping
Coronaviruses
Correlation
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Disease transmission
Emotional regulation
Emotions
Employment
Epidemics
Extreme environments
Humans
Knowledge
Life span
Mediation
Medical personnel
Medical research
Nurses
Nursing
Pandemics
Professional associations
Recruiting
Surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
Texas
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Summary:We examined the relationship between age, coping, and burnout during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic with nurses in Texas (N = 376). Nurses were recruited through a professional association and snowball sampling methodology for the cross-sectional survey study. Framed in lifespan development theories, we expected that nurse age and experience would be positively correlated with positive coping strategies (e.g., getting emotional support from others) and negatively correlated with negative coping strategies (e.g., drinking and drug use). We also expected age to be negatively related to the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization facets of burnout and positively related to the personal accomplishment facet of burnout. Findings were largely supported in that age was positively associated with positive coping and personal accomplishment and age and experience were negatively correlated with negative coping and depersonalization. Age was not, however, associated with emotional exhaustion. Mediation models further suggest that coping explains some of the effect of age on burnout. A theoretical extension of lifespan development models into an extreme environment and practical implications for coping in these environments are discussed.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph20085565