Factors related to job burnout among nurses in the Razi Psychiatric Hospital, Iran

Omid Rezaei; Kamelia Habibi; Davood Arab Ghahestany; Mohammad Sayadnasiri; Bahram Armoon; Vida Khan; Ladan Fattah Moghadam

doi:10.1515/ijamh-2017-0146

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Factors related to job burnout among nurses in the Razi Psychiatric Hospital, Iran

Omid Rezaei , Kamelia Habibi , Davood Arab Ghahestany , Mohammad Sayadnasiri , Bahram Armoon , Vida Khan and Ladan Fattah Moghadam

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From the journal International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health Volume 32 Issue 3

Abstract

Background

One of the most prevalent problems in work places that is considered as an important risk factor for the health of the employee is job burnout (JB). JB could be harmful to employees, their families and society. Therefore, decreasing JB among individuals and determining factors associated with it is important to improve the working environment and prevent its negative outcomes. This study aims to elicit the conditions and factors that cause job burnout among nurses of the Razi Psychiatric Hospital, Iran.

Methods

This study was a descriptive correlational and cross-sectional survey which the demographic and occupational burnout variables of nurses were measured. The study was conducted from January to April 2016. Accordingly, with a type I error probability of 0.05 and a power of 0.80, the sample size was determined to be 100 nurses for each group (men and women). Then, 200 were selected in the Razi Psychiatric Hospital (of whom approx. 60% worked in a rotating shift schedule). The data were collected in two phases: the first step was created by the authors, including gathering demographic data with questionnaire such as gender, age, marital status, education level, years of professional experience, hours of overtime working per month, shift schedules, and their working hospitals and wards. The second step was the Maslach burnout inventory (MBI), human services survey (HSS) version, developed by Maslach and Jackson to assess the three dimensions of burnout. Descriptive statistics (frequency distribution) were used for integrating the demographic variables. Additionally, logistical regression was applied to realize the association between demographic characteristics with the job burnout in SPSS software V.19.

Results

Our findings indicated that age, hours of work per week, nursing skills, management experience and work experiences accounted for 30% of the variance of depersonalization. Formal employment was significantly associated with emotional exhaustion (p < 0.04). Also, sex was significantly associated with low personal accomplishment (p < 0.006).

Conclusion

The employment status and gender of nurses participating in the study has an effect on emotional exhaustion and personal achievement. Paying more attention to gender in the nursing profession and the change in their work status to a stable and formalized format can lead to a reduction in job burnout among nurses.

Keywords: depersonalization; emotional exhaustion; job burnout; nurses

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of Mehdi Noroozi to the work of this review of evidence.

Conflict of interests: All authors have no conflicts of interest to be declared.
Ethical approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Informed consent: was obtained for all participants.
Authors contributions: Study design: OR. data synthesis: MSN and DAgh. Drafting the manuscript: LF and KH. Critical revision of the manuscript: VKH and BA.

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Received: 2017-08-21

Accepted: 2017-10-29

Published Online: 2018-03-03

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depersonalization; emotional exhaustion; job burnout; nurses