Factors Related to Well-Being Among Professional Nurses in an Emergency Department in Tertiary Hospitals, Bangkok Metropolitan
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Well-being, Professional nurses in emergency departments, Tertiary Hospitals, Autonomy, Safety climate in workAbstract
This descriptive correlational study examined the level of well-being and its associated factors autonomy, supervisor caring leadership behaviors, and safety climate among professional nurses working in Emergency Departments of tertiary hospitals in the Bangkok Metropolitan area. The sample included 163 nurses with at least one year of experience, selected through multistage random sampling. Data were collected via an online questionnaire administered through Google Forms. The instruments comprised a well-being questionnaire, an autonomy questionnaire, a supervisor caring leadership behavior questionnaire, and a safety climate questionnaire. Content validity was assessed by five experts, with CVI values of .97, .88, .96, and .99, respectively. Reliability was confirmed with Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of .93, .80, .97, and .93. Data analysis employed descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation coefficient.
The results showed that participants’ overall well-being was at a high level (M = 3.79, SD = .41). In addition, safety climate, autonomy, and supervisor caring leadership behaviors were positively correlated with nurses’ well-being at statistically significant levels (p < .05), with correlation coefficients of .504, .493, and .426, respectively.
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