3. Results
3.1. 1Sample statistics
Of the 328 respondents, 326 were female, and two were male.
About one third of the respondents ranged in age from 21 to 25
years (n ¼ 128). Overall, 163 respondents had less than 5 years
of experience nursing cancer patients, and 97 respondents
had between 6 and 15 years of experience. Eighteen were head
nurses, and 173 were working in a contractual system. Of the
respondents, 169 were married and most of them had
completed college (n ¼ 316).
3.2. Job burnout
Aggregate responses of the job burnout scales are summarized
in Table 1, and the mean and standard deviation (SD) for
each subscale of MBI are shown. Job burnout between Maslach
norms and oncology nurses are shown in Table 2. The data
suggested that job burnout in oncology nurses is moderate to
high relative to norms.
3.3. Nurse professional value
The scores of the four domains in nurse professional value are
shown in Table 3. The score for the 26 items of professional
value are shown in Table 4. The top 5 scoring items were 25