Nurses

Nurses may particularly benefit from practical, immediately usable stress management interventions given their specific occupational stressors. Nurses were significantly more likely than doctors to select stress management skills as their preferred form of psychological support. The article concludes that Chinese nursing staff are a high-risk occupational group for suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-injury. Research on suicidal ideation and non-suicidal self-injury in nurses, especially in China, was limited before this study. Nurses' preference for stress management skills may reflect occupational stressors including sustained patient contact, emotional labour, long working hours, high patient loads, and limited autonomy. The study frames nurses as facing workplace vulnerabilities that can contribute to psychiatric conditions and burnout. Nurses in China showed particular reluctance to acknowledge needing psychological help even when stress symptoms were present. The study included 283 female nurses from four teaching hospitals affiliated with Kerman University of Medical Sciences.