Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Work–family conflict and burnout in night-shift nurses with children: the mediating roles of recovery experience and fatigue
Originally published 2026-09-08 · Frontiers in Public Health
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1937541 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about work schedules that preserve recovery for parents on night shifts; the original evidence concerns 305 night-shift nurses with children in four hospitals in Henan, China.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
What would real recovery look like for a parent who works nights?
This reading brings recovery experiences and fatigue alongside work-family conflict and burnout in night-shift parents into the kindness pathway. The multicenter cross-sectional parent-nurse survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
305 night-shift nurses with children in four hospitals in Henan, China
Age / stage: Working parents; children's ages not stated in the abstract
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess recovery, fatigue and dimensions of burnout?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about independent and sequential statistical mediation pathways?
- What would need to be checked before adopting work schedules that preserve recovery for parents on night shifts?
Keep the limits in view
Convenience recruitment and cross-sectional self-reports cannot establish causal mediation or demonstrate an effective burnout intervention.
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Ting Dong; Guangke Wang; Lingcao Ma; Shuying Chang; Xiaolin Song; Hanqing Dai; Kunhua Hou (2026). Work–family conflict and burnout in night-shift nurses with children: the mediating roles of recovery experience and fatigue Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1937541
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