Survey Data on Stress and Work-Life Balance Among ICU Nurses in China

1,279 ICU nurses from 58 hospitals across 16 Chinese provinces participated in this cross-sectional study conducted in late 2025. The data, collected via validated scales for stress, work-life balance, and withdrawal behavior, was analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results show work-life balance mediates 33.23% of the effect of perceived stress on work withdrawal behavior.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the mediating role of work-life balance between stress and withdrawal behavior based on the described scales.
• Modeling structural relationships between psychological constructs like perceived stress and behavioral outcomes.
• Investigating demographic or geographic patterns in stress and work-life balance among critical care nurses in China.

Strengths

• Data collected from a large sample of 1,279 ICU nurses.
• Multicenter design covering 58 hospitals across 16 provinces in China.
• Uses validated scales (WLBS, PSS, WWBS) for measurement.
• Analysis includes robust statistical methods like structural equation modeling and bootstrap mediation tests.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and sampling bias inherent to the convenience and snowball sampling method.

Provenance

Source

Jun Li via figshare

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey using convenience and snowball sampling.

Time Range

Data collected between September and October 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 05:55:48; freshness should be verified.

Geography

58 hospitals across 16 provinces in China.