Effect of Balint group on empathy and job burnout among orthopedics nurses
ZHANG Lin
HE Ying
LIU Xiao-yan
Abstract：Objective To evaluate the influence of Balint group on empathy and job burnout among orthopedics nurses.Methods A Balint group was established,organized training activities 1 ～ 2 per month.Empathy and job burnout of orthopedics nurses were compared before and after 22 times training.Results After training,the score of the "transpositonal consideration" was significantly higher than before(P ＜ 0.01),the score of empathy ability and each dimension were increased(P ＞ 0.05).About 72.73％ nurses were at mild-to-moderate and job burnout,there was no significant difference on job burnout before and after training.Conclusion Orthopedics nurses were vulnerable to job burnout,Balint group training plays a positive role on transpositional consideration skills among nurse-patient communication.
Keywords：Balint groupempathyorthopaedicsnursejob burnout
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 293-294 )