A Longitudinal Study of Stress in New Nurses in their First Year of Employment

Table 1

Comparison of the stress of the survey respondents in different stages.

Items	T1	T2	T3	T4	F		Post hoc
Total stress score	2.29 ± 0.36	2.36 ± 0.50	2.37 ± 0.48	2.19 ± 0.54	74.789	<0.001	T4 < T1, T2, T3; T1 < T2, T3; T2 = T3
Nursing professional and work-related problems	2.30 ± 0.41	2.43 ± 0.58	2.43 ± 0.53	2.25 ± 0.61	12.238	<0.001	T1 < T2, T3; T4 < T2, T3; T2 = T3, T1 = T4
Time allocation and workload problems	2.46 ± 0.49	2.57 ± 0.62	2.64 ± 0.64	2.40 ± 0.71	14.392	<0.001	T4 < T2, T3; T1 < T3; T1 = T2, T1 = T4; T2 = T3
Work environment and equipment problems	2.07 ± 0.44	2.22 ± 0.58	2.30 ± 0.59	2.02 ± 0.55	16.930	<0.001	T1 < T2, T3; T4 < T2, T3; T1 = T4, T2 = T3
Patient care-related problems	2.42 ± 0.49	2.48 ± 0.57	2.49 ± 0.59	2.31 ± 0.62	13.813	<0.001	T4 < T1, T2, T3; T1 = T2 = T3
Management and interpersonal relationship problems	2.11 ± 0.42	2.09 ± 0.57	2.06 ± 0.53	1.94 ± 0.51	8.532	<0.001	T4 < T1, T2, T3; T1 = T2 = T3

Note. T1: before employment; T2: at month 4 after employment; T3: at month 8 after employment; T4: at month 12 after employment t; .