Resilience, occupational burnout, and parenting stress in nurses caring for COVID-19 patients

Introduction
Care of patients with coronavirus disease may have an impact on the occupational burnout, resilience, and parenting of nurses. The study was performed to evaluate occupational burnout, resilience, and parenting stress in nurses caring for COVID-19 patients.

Material and methods
This cross-sectional study was based on Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement. A total of 630 nurses caring for COVID-19 patients in 5 hospitals were selected via convenience sampling. Participants completed the scales online. Data were analyzed in SPSS v. 22.

Results
A total of 420 nurses completed and returned the questionnaires. The resilience mean score of the nurses who participated in the present study was 32.33 ±2.57 and the occupational burnout mean score was 32.33 ±2.57. Also, the parenting stress mean score of the 310 nurses who were married and had children was found to be 17.53 ±1.58 during the COVID-19 crisis. Occupational burnout has a negative correlation with resilience and a positive correlation with parenting stress and can predict 61.32% of changes in the occupational burnout variance of nurses

Conclusions
Resilience, parenting stress, marital status, number of children, employment status, and gender predicted a high percentage of the nurses’ occupational burnout variance. The nurse managers should use these findings to provide appropriate environments for nurses, to develop more comprehensive plans in support of nurses for the current and future crises.