Potential effects of the nursing work environment on the work-family conflict in operating room nurses

Table 1 General information of 300 operating room nurses

Item	n (%)
Gender
Male	2 (0.67)
Female	298 (99.33)
Age (yr)
20-30	118 (39.33)
31-40	175 (58.33)
41-50	7 (2.34)
Years of working (yr)
1-4	86 (28.67)
5-10	93 (31.00)
> 10	121 (40.33)
Professional title
Nurses and nurse practitioners	208 (69.33)
Chief nurses	77 (25.67)
Co-chief superintendent nurse and above	15 (5.00)
Hospital grade
First-class hospital at Grade 2	198 (66.00)
First-class hospital at Grade 3	102 (34.00)
Education background
Technical secondary school degree	35 (11.67)
College degree	124 (41.33)
Bachelor degree or above	141 (47.00)
Nature of work
Staff nurses	100 (33.33)
Personnel agency	18 (6.00)
Contracted nurses	182 (60.67)
Number of night shifts per month (n)
≤ 3	72 (24.00)
4-5	154 (51.33)
≥ 6	74 (24.67)
Daily hours of working (h)
≤ 8	142 (47.33)
> 8	158 (52.67)
Marital status
Single	118 (39.33)
Married	182 (60.67)

Table 2 practice environment scale of the nursing work index score of 300 operating room nurses (mean ± SD)

Item	Score
Medical and nursing cooperation	3.23 ± 0.51
Ability of nursing managers and the way of leadership	3.52 ± 0.49
Nurses participating in the hospital affairs	2.61 ± 0.39
Foundation of the high-quality nursing services	3.21 ± 0.46
Abundance of the human and material resources	3.09 ± 0.48
Total average score	3.07 ± 0.43

Table 3 The scores of work-family conflicts among 300 operation room nurses (mean ± SD)

Item	Family-work conflict	Work-family conflict	Total score
Time	6.63 ± 2.39	10.89 ± 3.24	17.65 ± 4.09
Pressure	8.02 ± 2.59	9.23 ± 2.21	17.42 ± 3.49
Behavior	7.24 ± 2.21	9.25 ± 2.35	16.48 ± 3.85
Total score	22.26 ± 5.32	30.07 ± 5.77a	52.32 ± 8.79

Compared with family-work conflict.

^aP < 0.05.

Table 4 Correlation analysis on the scores of practice environment scale of the nursing work index scale and work-family conflict (r value)

Item	Family-work conflict	Work-family conflict	Total score
Medical and nursing cooperation	-0.581a	-0.547a	-0.568b
Ability of nursing managers and the way of leadership	-0.537a	-0.599a	-0.613b
Nurses participating in the hospital affairs	-0.562a	-0.549a	-0.557b
Foundation of the high-quality nursing services	-0.531a	-0.522a	-0.581b
Abundance of the human and material resources	-0.559a	-0.619a	-0.634b
Total average score	-0.542a	-0.528a	-0.534b

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.01.

Table 5 Assignment of the various variables

Variable	Assignment
Gender
Male	0
Female	1
Age (yr)
20-30	1
31-40	2
41-50	3
Years of working (yr)
1-4	1
5-10	2
> 10	3
Professional title
Nurses and nurse practitioners	1
Chief nurses	2
Co-chief superintendent nurse and above	3
Hospital grade
First-class hospital at Grade 2	1
First-class hospital at Grade 3	0
Education background
Technical secondary school degree	1
College degree	2
Bachelor degree or above	3
Nature of work
Staff nurses	0
Personnel agency	1
Contracted nurses	2
Number of night shifts per month (n)
≤ 3	1
4-5	2
≥ 6	3
Daily hours of working (h)
≤ 8	0
> 8	1

Table 6 Analysis on the different influencing factors of work-family conflict in operation room nurses

Item	B	β	t	P value
The first floor
Constant terms	0.412	-	13.562	0.000
Number of night shifts per month	0.831	0.782	2.812	0.009
The second floor
Constant terms	0.426	-	3.624	0.007
Medical and nursing cooperation	0.581	0.625	4.642	0.000
Ability of nursing managers and the way of leadership	0.592	0.253	4.982	0.000
Nurses participating in hospital affairs	0.263	0.154	2.876	0.008
Abundance of human and material resources	0.262	0.119	2.756	0.011

The first floor: R² = 0.032, F = 3.882, P = 0.000; the second floor: R² = 0.584, F = 4.627, P = 0.000.