Spiritual Coping Strategies to Deal with Job Burnout among Military Nurses: A Qualitative Study

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

1 Health Research Center, Life Style Institute, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2 Faculty of Nursing & Health Management Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

3 Behavioral Sciences Research Center and Nursing Faculty, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Background and Aim: Job burnout as an important subject and essential component of the nursing profession not only reduces the quality of life, but also has a negative impact on the quality of work-life of people. The purpose of this study was to carried out the spiritual coping strategies to deal with Job burnout in military Nurses.
Methods: This qualitative study was conducted through content analysis in the second half of 2015. In this study, twelve military nurses were selected through purposive sampling up to saturation data. Initially, they were asked to express their experiences about job burnout and then how to deal with it through semi-structured and deep individual interviews. After collecting the data, all interviews were recorded on paper and converted into text data and then coded with the special software analysis. Participants' contextual content data were analyzed through a conventional content analysis approach.
Results: Data analysis resulted in the 243 primary codes in 9 sub-categories and three main categories. The main theme included religious beliefs, occupational values and pilgrimage-tourism programs that were extracted as strategies for coping with job burnout.
Conclusion: Religious beliefs and spirituality were considered as the most important adaptive factor that could be effective in nursing adjustment with the consequences of job burnout. So that nursing practices are targeted, easy to deals with work problems, and can also improve their quality of work life.

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Journal of Military Medicine
Volume 23, Issue 6 - Serial Number 103
September and October 2021
Pages 472-481

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