Correlation between workplace and occupational burnout syndrome in nurses

Authors
Omid Ahmadi 1
Reza Azizkhani 1
Monem Basravi 2
1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
2 Medical school, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Abstract
Background: This study was conducted to determine the effect of nurses' workplace on burnout syndrome among nurses working in Isfahan's Alzahra Hospital as a reference and typical university affiliated hospital, in 2010.
Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 100 nurses were randomly selected among those working in emergency, orthopedic, dialysis wards and intensive care unit (ICU). Required data on determination of occupational burnout rate among the nurses of these wards were collected using Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) standard and validated questionnaire. Nurses were selected using simple random sampling.
Results: The multivariate ANOVA analysis showed that occupational burnout mean values of nurses working in orthopedic and dialysis wards were significantly less than those of nurses working in emergency ward and ICU (P0 = 0.01). There was also no significant difference between occupational burnout mean values of nurses working in emergency ward and ICU ( P > 0.05). t-test showed that there was a difference between occupational burnout values of men and women, as these values for women were higher than those of men (P = 0.001).
Conclusion: Results showed that occupational burnout mean values of nurses working in emergency ward and ICU were significantly more than those of nurses working in orthopedic and dialysis wards.

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Advanced Biomedical Research
Volume 2014, January
January 2014
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