Professional happiness assessment tool for nurses：A scoping review

Abstract

Abstract Background: With the continuous development of positive psychology, happiness at work has become a new topic, especially in nurses. However, there is a lack of scope review that can summarize the assessment tools of nurses' occupational happiness. Objective: This study systematically searched the evaluation tools of nurses' occupational happiness, and analyzed the basic characteristics, dimensions, reliability , validity and localization of assessment tools. To provide reference for effective assessment of nurses' occupational happiness in the future. Methods: A scoping review was conducted using search results from four bibliographic databases. Results: A total of 3912 articles were retrieved, 33 articles were included. 3797 articles were retained after duplicate articles were eliminated. In the title and abstract screening, 3662 articles were excluded. The full text selection eliminated 102 articles. In the end, 33 articles from 20 countries were left on the scope review. Among them, 17 were universal assessment tools and 3 were dedicated to nurses. The content of evaluation often involves individual positive emotion, negative emotion and life satisfaction. The universal tool is mainly used to evaluate the subjective well-being of individual population and is widely used. Assessment tools for the nurse population include not only the assessment range of universal tools, but also the assessment of happiness in the nurse's work environment. The scoring method is mainly Likert scoring. All 20 tools have been introduced and localized in different countries and tested for reliability and validity in nurses. Conclusions: The improvement of nurses' occupational happiness will mean higher quality of care and general improvement of individual health. Evaluating nurses' occupational happiness is the premise of improving nurses' occupational happiness. There is still a lack of convenient and accurate assessment tools in clinical practice. In the future, researchers should identify the differences in nurses' occupational happiness studies in different countries, apply the definition of norms, and develop assessment tools for nurses' occupational happiness in different departments. In the test of reliability and validity, the sample size should be expanded and the multi-center test should be carried out to enhance the evaluation tool persuasion, improve the quality of assessment tools and expand the degree of popularization. In clinical practice, assessment tools are standardized step by step.