J Korean Acad Nurs Adm JKANA Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration 1225-9330 2288-4955 Korean Academy of Nursing Administration 10.11111/jkana.2015.21.5.511 Original Article Effects of the Mind Map for Emotional Labor and Burnout: A Survey of Nurses in Outpatient Departments of Cancer Hospitals Lee Jin A 1 Park Seok Won 1 Kim Kyeong Ji 1 Paik Hyun Ok 1 Jeon Eunyoung 2 Department of Nursing, National Cancer Center, Korea. Department of Nursing, Daegu University, Korea. Corresponding author: Jeon, Eunyoung. Department of Nursing, Daegu University, 33 Seongdang-ro, 50-gil, Nam-gu, Daegu 705-714, Korea. Tel: +82-53-650-8392, Fax: +82-53-650-8389, jeoney@daegu.ac.kr 12 2015 31 12 2015 21 5 511 518 17 08 2015 15 09 2015 09 12 2015 Copyright © 2015 Korean Academy of Nursing Administration 2015 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Purpose

The purpose of this research was to develop and evaluate the effect of a mind map for relief of emotional labor and burnout among nurses in outpatient departments in cancer hospitals.

 Methods

We developed a mind map to reduce emotional labor and burnout. A quasi-experimental study was used with a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. Data were collected from December 2012 to April 2013. Participants were 35 nurses working in the outpatient department of a cancer hospital. The experimental group participated in the mind map program biweekly for 10 weeks. Data were analyzed using χ2-test, Mann-Whitney U test, paired t-test, and Wilcoxon sign rank test with the SPSS 21.0 program.

 Results

The physical burnout and total burnout scores decreased significantly in the intervention group which took the mind map program.

 Conclusion

Findings indicate that the mind map is an effective intervention to reduce burnout in outpatient department nurses.

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*Fisher's exact test; Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group.

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*Mann-Whitney U test; Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group.

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*paired t-test; †Wilcoxon sign rank test; ‡Mann-Whitney U test; Exp.=Experimental group; Cont.=Control group.