Role Stress and Psychological Distress Among Chinese Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Moderated Mediation Model of Social Support and Burnout

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.812929
• Publication Date: 2022-03-17T06:19:03Z
• Authors: Yuting Xiao; Honghui Zhang; Qian Li; Shan Xiao; Ting Dai; Jia Guo; Yu Yu
• Keywords: Moderated mediation; Moderation

Nurses are at high risk of psychological distress including stress, depression, and anxiety due to low personnel density work demand. Despite mounting evidence showing that role stress is a factor for nurses' distress, the mediating moderating mechanisms underlying this relationship less known. This study tests mediation effect burnout in association between whether moderated by social support.A sample 623 Chinese nurses were recruited from all hepatological surgery departments Hunan Province filled out an online questionnaire collect data on socio-demographics, burnout, support. Mediation moderation analyses carried SPSS macro-PROCESS.Burnout partially mediated positive distress. Social support indirect via with being stronger than those support.These findings demonstrated how contributed both directly indirectly through was The results provide important practical implications future prevention intervention programs improve mental health multiple aspects such as decreasing while increasing