Mental Health and Medical Error among Nursing Staffs at Korean Medicine Clinics: a first survey in South Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Nurses face mental health issues like emotional labor, stress, and depression, increasing the risk of medical errors. This study assesses the mental health and medical errors among nurses in Korean medicine clinics in South Korea.

Methods

The cross-sectional analysis involved 83 nurses, examining relationships between emotional labor, stress, depression, cognitive failure, Hwa-byung (HB) (a syndrome of suppressed anger in Korean culture), and medical errors. It identified factors associated with HB and medical errors using multiple regression analysis, presenting their odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs).

Results

The findings revealed a current HB prevalence of 19.28% and a 6-month medical error prevalence of 16.87% among participants. The

SUBMITTER: Nam SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11439513 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature