Digital burnout in nursing: development of a valid and reliable scale to assess digital burnout associated with the digitalization process in nursing
Fatma Nuray Kuşcu Şahin · 2026
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Fatma Nuray Kuşcu Şahin and colleagues build a scale to measure digital burnout among nurses in a 2026 study. As nursing work digitises, screen-heavy tasks can drain staff, yet no dedicated measure existed. The team surveyed 302 nurses in a public hospital in Hatay, Turkey, splitting the sample in half to first explore and then confirm the scale structure.
The final scale has 16 items in two parts: emotional exhaustion and erosion of human interaction. Reliability was high, with alpha values from 0.93 to 0.96, and validity checks supported the structure. Digital burnout rose with organisational stress, and erosion of human interaction predicted exhaustion. The scale gives hospitals a tool to track a new form of burnout before it harms staff and care.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Fatma Nuray Kuşcu Şahin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 54 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |