The Relationship between Socio-Demographic Characteristics and WorkFamily Conflict among Staff Nurses at Ismailia General Hospital | ||
| Trends in Nursing and Health Care Journal | ||
| Volume 3, Issue 2, December 2021, Pages 1-17 PDF (465.58 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/tnhcj.2021.247522 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Nurses expose to a variety of job and family demands causing work family conflict. It is the overlapping of home and work roles that may lead to interface in the roles at home, or cause problems at work. These conflicts can occurs as a result of factors related to work domain including hours worked, frequency/amount of overtime, or factors related to family domain including marital status, or family caring responsibilities. Hence, the role of socio-demographic characteristics is resided. Aim of the study: assess the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and work-family conflict among staff nurses at Ismailia General Hospital. Material and methods: a descriptive correlational design was conducted on all staff nurses (270) using a questionnaires assessing their socio-demographic characteristics and work-family conflict at all departments and units in Ismailia General Hospital. Results: staff nurses scored moderate level of work-family conflict, and 84.8 percent of them were female, caring for children and elderly in the family, with one to eleven years of experience and caring for five to eight patients. There is no statistically significant difference among total work-family conflicts scores of staff nurses in relation to their socio-demographic except working shift and number of patients. Conclusion: totally all socio-demographic characteristics cause no significant difference with work-family conflict except working late shift and fife to eight patients for nurse which is the highest applicable patient/nurse ratio as a nursing assignment for the shift. Recommendations: All staff nurses should be started training programs on stress and time management techniques to help in manage work family conflict with its two directions. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Family interference with work; Socio-demographic characteristics; Work-Family Conflict; Work interference with family | ||
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