J Korean Clin Nurs Res.  2021 Dec;27(3):257-266. 10.22650/JKCNR.2021.27.3.257.

The Relationship among Traumatic Event Experience, Self Disclosure, Social Support, and Posttraumatic Growth of Intensive Care Unit Nurses

• Kim YS
• Kang KJ

• KMID: 2523810
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.22650/JKCNR.2021.27.3.257

Abstract

Purpose
This study examined the levels of traumatic event experience, self disclosure, social support, and posttraumatic growth of intensive care unit nurses and their relationships.
Methods
Participants were 142 nurses who had worked for more than 3 months in six general hospitals, J province from August 7 to September 25, 2020. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and multiple regression using the program SPSS version 22.0.
Results
The posttraumatic growth was found to correlate significantly with self disclosure (r=.23, p=.005), individual support (r=.54, p<.001), and organizational support (r=.32, p<.001). Factors influencing the participants of the posttraumatic growth were individual support (β=.46, p<.001) and organizational support (β=.21, p=.007). These factors explained 32.0% of the variance of ICU nurses’ posttraumatic growth (F=14.13, p<.001).
Conclusion
Efforts to support positive changes after traumatic event experience for ICU nurses are needed. We suggest to develop individual and organizational supportive programs for posttraumatic growth for ICU nurses and to investigate the effects of the programs.