ABSTRACT

Objective

This study aimed to assess job satisfaction, burnout levels, and brain drain attitude samong nurses, as well as to explore the relationships among these variables.

Methods

The descriptive and correlational study was conducted on 1-30 September 2023 with 160 nurses aged 18-35 years. Participant Information Form, Nurse Job Satisfaction Scale (NJSS), Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) and Attitude Scale for Brain Drain (ASBD) were used to collect the data. Student t-test, One-Way Analysis of Variance, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis, Pearson and Spearman's Correlation Analysis, linear regression modelling were used in the evaluation of the data. The results were evaluated at 95% confidence interval and significance at p<0.05 level.

Results

The mean score of the NJSS’ was 3.11±0.72, the mean scores of the MBI sub-dimension scores were 3.35±1.02, for Exhaustion, 2.93±0.93, for Depersonalisation, 2.40±0.70, for Competence, and 56.55±15.55 for ASBD. There was a wea knegative correlation between the NJSS and the ASBD and a weak positive correlation between the MBI and the ASBD (p<0.01). The result of there gression analysis performed to determine the relationships between descriptive characteristics, NJSS and MBI and ASBD scores was found to be significant (F=8.009, p=0.001, p<0.01).

Conclusion

Determinants of attitudes towards brain drain included depersonalization scores, income status, and the nurses’ work department.