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      The impact of psychological capital on mental health among Iranian nurses: considering the mediating role of job burnout

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          Abstract

          Background

          The role of nurses in providing high quality healthcare to patients is so important that creating a desirable working environment to enhance their overall performance is unavoidable. This paper aimed to explore the impact of psychological capital on mental health by investigating the mediating effects of job burnout on this relationship.

          Methods and material

          The data used in this research was obtained via a survey conducted among selected Iranian nurses in public hospitals. In total, 450 questionnaires were distributed and 384 were completed and returned. Collected data was analysed using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM).

          Results

          Findings showed that there is a significant relationship between psychological capital, job burnout and mental health; also, there is a significant negative relationship between psychological capital and job burnout, and a significant positive relationship between psychological capital and mental health.

          Conclusion

          The results have several important practical implications for human resource management in Iranian public hospitals. According to the results of this study, reducing job burnout is an important factor in enhancing psychological capital and can positively enhance nurses’ mental health.

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            Burnout and physical and mental health among Swedish healthcare workers.

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            This paper is a report of a study to investigate how burnout relates to self-reported physical and mental health, sleep disturbance, memory and lifestyle factors. Previous research on the possible relationship between lifestyle factors and burnout has yielded somewhat inconsistent results. Most of the previous research on possible health implications of burnout has focused on its negative impact on mental health. Exhaustion appears to be the most obvious manifestation of burnout, which also correlates positively with workload and with other stress-related outcomes. A cross-sectional study was conducted, using questionnaires sent to all employees in a Swedish County Council (N = 6118) in 2002. The overall response rate was 65% (n = 3719). A linear discriminant analysis was used to look for different patterns of health indicators and lifestyle factors in four burnout groups (non-burnout, disengaged, exhausted and burnout). Self-reported depression, anxiety, sleep disturbance, memory impairment and neck- and back pain most clearly discriminated burnout and exhausted groups from disengaged and non-burnout groups. Self-reported physical exercise and alcohol consumption played a minor role in discriminating between burnout and non-burnout groups, while physical exercise discriminated the exhausted from the disengaged group. Employees with burnout had most symptoms, compared with those who experienced only exhaustion, disengagement from work or no burnout, and the result underlines the importance of actions taken to prevent and combat burnout.
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                Contributors
                Mehrdad Estiri: +(98 21)61117724 , mehrdadstiri@ut.ac.ir
                Abbas Nargesian: +(98 21)61117635 , anargesian@ut.ac.ir
                Farinaz Dastpish: Farinazdastpish@gmail.com
                Seyed Mahdi Sharifi: +(98 21)61117786 , sharifee@ut.ac.ir
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Springerplus
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Springerplus
                Title: SpringerPlus
                Publisher: Springer International Publishing (Cham )
                ISSN (Electronic): 2193-1801
                Publication date (Electronic): 22 August 2016
                Publication date PMC-release: 22 August 2016
                Publication date Collection: 2016
                Volume: 5
                Issue: 1
                Electronic Location Identifier: 1377
                Affiliations
                Nasr Bridge, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, P.O. Box: 14155-6311, Tehran, 1417963193 Iran
                Article
                Publisher ID: 3099
                DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-3099-z
                PMC ID: 4993743
                PubMed ID: 27610296
                SO-VID: 69ab2b31-b5a1-4a1f-b4f6-3eb35938520b
                Copyright © © The Author(s) 2016
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                Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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                Date received : 14 June 2016
                Date accepted : 18 August 2016
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                Subject: Research
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                Keywords: psychological capital,job burnout,mental health,nursing administration
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                Keywords: psychological capital, job burnout, mental health, nursing administration

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