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The effect of a psychological empowerment program based on psychodrama on empowerment perception and burnout levels in oncology nurses: Psychological empowerment in oncology nurses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2015

Azize Atli Özbaş  and
Havva Tel
Azize Atli Özbaş*
Affiliation:
Hacettepe University Nursing Faculty, Psychiatric Nursing Department, Ankara, Turkey
Havva Tel
Affiliation:
Cumhuriyet University Faculty of Health Sciences, Psychiatric Nursing Department, Sivas, Turkey
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Azize Atli Özbaş, Hacettepe University Nursing Faculty, Psychiatric Nursing Department, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Fakültesi, 06100 Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: azeozbas@gmail.com.
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Abstract

Objective:

Oncology nursing is stressful by its nature, and nurses in the field experience a high amount of stress and burnout. In order to cope with occupational stress, nurses need to employ flexible adjustment mechanisms that allow them the power to process their experiences. Failure of efficient stress management causes burnout, and burnout is closely related to powerlessness. It is therefore believed that the occurrence of burnout can be reduced by means of psychological empowerment of nurses. Our study was conducted to determine the effect of a “psychodrama-based psychological empowerment program” on (1) the perception of empowerment and (2) the levels of burnout in oncology nurses.

Method:

The sample was made up of 82 oncology nurses (38 nurses in the study group and 44 in the control/comparison group). Study data were collected using the Psychological Empowerment Scale, the Nurse Work Empowerment Scale, and Maslach's Burnout Inventory. The study group attended a “psychodrama-based psychological empowerment program” (2 hours, 1 day a week, for 10 weeks). For data assessment, we employed an independent t test and one-way analysis of variance.

Results:

The psychological empowerment and workplace empowerment scores of nurses in the study group increased and their burnout scores decreased following attendance in the psychodrama-based psychological empowerment program.

Significance of results:

We found that the psychodrama-based psychological empowerment program increased psychological empowerment and enhanced perception of workplace empowerment while decreasing levels of burnout in oncology nurses. The program is recommended and should allow oncology nurses to benefit from their personal experiences and thus increase self-empowerment, to enhance their perception of empowerment, and to prevent burnout.

Keywords

Oncology nursePsychodramaPsychological empowermentWorkplace empowermentBurnout
Type
Original Articles
Information
Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , August 2016 , pp. 393 - 401
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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