Network of job demands-resources and depressive symptoms in critical care nurses: a nationwide cross-sectional study
Authors' conclusion
There was a rather strong interconnectedness between depressive symptoms and job demands-resources. Fatigue, motor, and appetite were core depressive symptoms of critical care nurses.
Study context
- Population
- Clinical nurses working in the ICU, 67 tertiary hospitals in 31 province-level regions in China (baseline data of the Nurses' mental health study)
- Participants
- 13,745 nurses
- Outcome
- Depressive symptoms and their network with job demands-resources and personal resources (resilience)
Methodological detailsnationwide, multicentre, network analysis, structural equation model
- Nationwide
- Multicentre
- Network analysis
- Structural equation model
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Depressive symptom severity (prevalence) and network structure
- Severe depressive symptoms
- 1.21%
- Moderately severe depressive symptoms
- 3.42%
- Moderate depressive symptoms
- 9.76%
- Mild depressive symptoms
- 42.88%
- None or minimum depressive symptoms
- 42.07%
- Non-zero edges in final network (132 of 210 possible)
- 62.8%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Structural equation model fit
- GFI
- 0.918
- AGFI
- 0.896
- PCFI
- 0.789
- PNFI
- 0.788
- NFI
- 0.909
- IFI
- 0.911
- CFI
- 0.911
- SRMR
- 0.040
- RMSEA
- 0.064
- Basically supported the results of network analysis; acceptable model-fit
Original publication
Network of job demands-resources and depressive symptoms in critical care nurses: a nationwide cross-sectional study. Crit Care. Published 21 January 2025. doi:10.
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