A Study of the Working Environment of Operating Room Nurses: A Comparative Study with General Ward Nurses

A Study of the Working Environment of Operating Room Nurses: A Comparative Study with General Ward Nurses - A Study on the Working Environment of Operating Room Nurses

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000056336

Enrollment

800

Registered

2025-02-01

Start date

2025-02-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

Workplace environment for operating room nurses and general ward nurses

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Nurses working in operating theaters and general wards at general hospitals with more than 200 beds in Mie and Aichi Prefectures.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Those who work in departments that do not admit patients who do not require specific, specialized treatment, such as outpatient, emergency and critical care centers, care units, and radiology departments. Staff nurses (nurses who do not provide direct patient care) excluding managers and nurses with equivalent positions and roles.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The workplace environment will be measured using the Japanese version of the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) as an evaluation item, targeting operating room nurses and nurses working on general wards. The Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES- NWI) is a scale consisting of 31 questions and 5 subscales, and for each item, respondents choose the answer that best applies to them from a 4-point scale ranging from "strongly agree" (=1) to "strongly disagree" (=4). The "subscale score" is calculated by reassigning the scores for each item from "strongly agree" (4 points) to "strongly disagree" (1 point), and then calculating the average for each subscale. Using the average rather than the total score is said to make it possible to compare the size of the scores between the subscales. The average of the five subscale scores is taken as the "composite score".	—

Measure

Time frame

The workplace environment will be measured using the Japanese version of the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) as an evaluation item, targeting operating room nurses and nurses working on general wards. The Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES- NWI) is a scale consisting of 31 questions and 5 subscales, and for each item, respondents choose the answer that best applies to them from a 4-point scale ranging from "strongly agree" (=1) to "strongly disagree" (=4). The "subscale score" is calculated by reassigning the scores for each item from "strongly agree" (4 points) to "strongly disagree" (1 point), and then calculating the average for each subscale. Using the average rather than the total score is said to make it possible to compare the size of the scores between the subscales. The average of the five subscale scores is taken as the "composite score".

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Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactMasaki Mizutani

Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Nursing Major

323m103@m.mie-u.ac.jp080-6946-1492

Outcome results