Occupational Burnout and Its Related Factors Among Iranian Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study in Shahroud, Northeast of Iran

BACKGROUND: Good physical and mental health of employees is one of the major characteristics of a healthy organisation. AIM: Due to the importance of occupational burnout and its potentially negative consequences, the aim of this study was to assess occupational burnout and its related factors among Iranian nurses. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 205 nurses who were working in two educational hospitals affiliated with Shahroud University of Medical Sciences were included. Forty-two of the nurses were male, and 163 were female (mean age: 31 years). Maslach Occupational Burnout Inventory, demographic and job characteristics questionnaires were completed for each nurse. Questionnaires were then collected, and data were analysed statistically by SPSS, version 22. RESULTS: In the assessment of occupational burnout, the highest level was observed in emotional exhaustion and then in personal performance. There was a significant difference between the frequency of nurses' emotional exhaustion domain in terms of gender (P < 0.05), so that, women suffered more from emotional exhaustion. There was a significant difference between the frequencies of nurses' performance in terms of marital status (P < 0.05) so that married people had more personal performance disorder. CONCLUSION: The results of this study showed that nurses suffered from low occupational burnout. Female gender, sleeping disorders, awakening at night and employment in stressful wards such as the emergency ward was associated with a higher level of occupational burnout in nurses

بررسی وضعیت فرسودگی شغلی در پرسنل اورژانس پیش بیمارستانی شاهرود؛ یک مطالعه مقطعی

Introduction: Job burnout is a disorder due to long-term exposure of a person to work-related stress. The aim of this study was to investigate the burnout status of pre-hospital emergency staff in Shahroud city. Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 100 pre-hospital emergency staff in Shahroud, Iran in 1397. The Maslach Burnout Questionnaire was used. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, mean and standard deviation, and independent t-test, Chi-square and Fisher exact tests were used based on the type of variable. The significance level was considered as 0/05. Results: In this study, 100 cases (all were male) were included. The mean age was 30.75±5.55  years. The severity and frequency of emotional exhaustion were low in 95% of subjects. Depersonalization in frequency was high in 45% of the cases and was high in severity in 50% of the subjects. Personality satisfaction was moderate in frequency in 40% of the cases and was low in severity in 65 percent. Conclusion: The results of this study showed that pre-hospital emergency staff had mild degrees of severity and frequency of emotional exhaustion and moderate degrees of severity and frequency of personal adequacy and sever feeling of personality deprivation.مقدمه: فرسودگی شغلی، نوعی اختلال به دلیل مواجهه طولانی مدت شخص در معرض فشار روانی در رابطه با کار می باشد. این مطالعه با هدف بررسی وضعیت فرسودگی شغلی در کارکنان اورژانس پیش بیمارستانی شهر شاهرود انجام شد. روش کار: مطالعه حاضر بصورت مقطعی در 100 نفر از کارکنان اورژانس پیش بیمارستانی شهر شاهرود در سال 1397 صورت گرفت. ابزار مورد استفاده در این مطالعه پرسشنامه فرسودگی شغلی ماسلاچ بود. برای تجزیه و تحلیل داده ها از آمار توصیفی میانگین، انحراف معیار، نیز آزمون آماری تی مستقل، مجذور کای و آزمون دقیق فیشر برحسب نوع متغیر استفاده شد. سطح معناداری در این مطالعه 05/0 در نظر گرفته شد یافته ها: تمامی افراد مورد بررسی مرد بودند. میانگین سنی افراد 55/5 ± 75/30 سال بود. شدت و دفعات خستگی هیجانی در 95 درصد افراد کم بود. مسخ شخصیت در 45 درصد دفعات متوسط و شدت آن در 50 درصد افراد زیاد بود. احساس کفایت شخصیت در 40 درصد از نظر دفعات متوسط و از نظر شد ت در 65 درصد افراد کم بود. نتیجه گیری: نتایج بررسی نشان داد کارکنان اورژانس پیش بیمارستانی درجات کمی از شدت و دفعات خستگی هیجانی و درجات متوسط از شدت و دفعات کفایت شخصی و به مقدار زیادی احساس مسخ شخصیت را دارا می باشند