From March 1, 2017 to March 15, 2017, an electronic questionnaire (including general situation questionnaire, psychological coherence scale, and job burnout scale) was used to conduct questionnaire survey on 156 nurses from the Public Health Clinical Center of Chengdu. One hundred and fifty-six valid questionnaires were recovered, and the recovery rate was 100.00%. The correlation between sense of coherence and job burnout was analyzed by partial correlation analysis.

Sense of cohe-rence: for the 156 nurses, the total score was (60.33±12.38), and the scores of three dimensions (i.e. sense of value, understanding ability, and processing or management ability) were (4.70±1.09), (4.62±1.02), and (4.61±1.10), respectively. Among the 156 respondents, 91 (58.33%) nurses had a low level of psychological coherence, 55 (35.26%) were at a medium level, and 10 (6.41%) were at a high level. Job burnout: of the 156 nurses, there were 127 (81.41%) nurses with job burnout: 51 (32.69%) with mild, 26 (16.67%) with moderate, and 50 (32.05%) with severe. As to the various dimensions, the scores of nurses were (27.31±10.09) in the emotional exhaustion dimension, (28.31±7.14) in dimension of personal sense of accomplishment, and (8.31±5.38) in the dimension of depersonalization. Partial correlation analysis represented a negative correlation of psychological coherence with emotional exhaustion and depersonalization (r=-0.64, -0.58; P<0.001) and a positive correlation with personal sense of accomplishment (r=0.58, P<0.001).

The job burnout of tubercular nursing staffs is serious, and there is a significant correlation between sense of coherence and job burnout. The higher the level of the tubercular nurses’ sense of coherence, the lower the level of job burnout.