Background
Nurses’ burnout might affect their quality of life, productivity and nursing care services.
Aim
The aim of this systematic review was to systemically review the relationship between nurses’ burnout and quality of life and to introduce practical recommendations to reduce nurses’ BO and improve their QOL.
Methods
In April 2021, MeSH terms (("Nurses"[Mesh]) AND "Burnout, Professional"[Mesh]) AND "Quality of Life"[Majr] were used to search five electronic databases: CINAHL, PubMed, Medline, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection and Google Scholar.
Results
The search produced 21 studies exploring nurses’ burnout and their quality of life within the last ten years (2009–2021). Most of these studies found significant relationships between the burnout dimension(s) and quality of life dimension(s) among the nurses.
Conclusion
Nurses have moderate to high levels of burnout and were negatively associated with poor quality of life. Interventional programs are needed to decrease nurses’ burnout and improve their quality of life.
Background
To ensure accurate measurement of the health benefits of habitual physical activity in large sample epidemiological studies, physical activity questionnaires (PAQs) are the most feasible methods. Therefore, the purpose of this study was the validation and cultural adaptation to the Hungarian population of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-HL).
Methods
A cross-sectional study among Hungarian healthy adults (age 21.375 ± 1.940 years,
n
= 120) was performed comparing measures of last 7 days IPAQ-HL self- administered questionnaire and obtained accelerometer (Actigraph GT3X) data for concurrent validity, reassessed by a random subsample (
n
= 33) to measure reliability.
Results
Our results indicate acceptable criterion validity for total physical activity, moderate to vigorous physical activity (
R
= 0.387,
p
< 0.001;
R
= 0.331
p
< 0.001 respectively) and moderate physical activity (
R
= 0.193,
p
= 0.034). The ICC scores revealed moderate to good correlations (ICC = 0.744–0.942,
p
< 0.001). Moderate Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measure (0.531,
p
< 0.001) and good reproducibility for vigorous, moderate to vigorous and moderate activities was found for IPAQ-HL in the studied population. Nevertheless, like analogous self-reports in other languages, it overestimates the time spent on physical activity.
Conclusions
IPAQ-HL proved to be a reasonably valid measure for population prevalence epidemiological studies and is suggested for use to develop public health policy recommendations or to optimize public health interventions. However, the results on vigorous activity should be interpreted with caution, the questionnaire showed moderate validity for this particular intensity.
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