Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management, cilt.40, 2025 (Scopus)
Background: Nurses' comfort level plays an important role in their ability to perform their professional duties effectively and in supporting their job satisfaction and physical-psychological well-being. Comfort can reduce stress levels and increase a person's ability to cope with challenges in their work or personal life. The study was conducted to determine the relationship between comfort and burnout level of operating room nurses. Methods: This cross-sectional study was completed with the participation of 115 operating room nurses. Descriptive Characteristics Form, Nurse Comfort Questionnaire and Maslach Burnout Inventory were used to collect the study data. Results: The burnout level of the nurses was significant and negatively correlated with the total comfort level, sociocultural, psychospiritual and physical comfort. The physical, sociocultural and psychospiritual comfort predicted 49% of the total variance in emotional exhaustion and 18% of the total variance in depersonalization. Conclusions: As the comfort of the nurses working in the operating room decreased, their burnout levels increased. The nurses' emotional burnout level was significantly and negatively correlated with total comfort level, sociocultural and psychospiritual comfort, and depersonalization level was significantly and negatively correlated with total comfort level, sociocultural, psychospiritual and physical comfort level. In addition, comfort sub-dimensions significantly predicted emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. In order to improve the quality of healthcare services and increase nurses' overall well-being and job satisfaction, it is recommended that future studies focus on intervention-based studies aimed at increasing nurses' comfort.