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Working Excessively and Burnout Among Nurses in the Context of Sick Leaves

INTRODUCTION: Nurses are particularly at risk of being affected by professional burnout because of the unique patient – caregiver relationship, which requires strong emotional involvement. AIM: In this study, we decided to examine the mutual correlations of working excessively and burnout – two basi...

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Autores principales: Kowalczuk, Krystyna, Krajewska-Kułak, Elżbieta, Sobolewski, Marek
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7052176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32158416
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00285
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Krajewska-Kułak, Elżbieta
Sobolewski, Marek
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description INTRODUCTION: Nurses are particularly at risk of being affected by professional burnout because of the unique patient – caregiver relationship, which requires strong emotional involvement. AIM: In this study, we decided to examine the mutual correlations of working excessively and burnout – two basic occurrences affecting the mental well-being of employees – and their relationship with sick leave. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was conducted among 460 nurses working in 3 hospitals in Poland. The polish version of Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Working Excessively Questionnaire developed by Paluchowski were used to conduct the survey. All the demographic data and data on sick leaves were obtained from surveys in the form of respondents’ self-reports. RESULTS: The constructed regression model shows that the tendency to work excessively, as assessed by loss of control over work (LCW), perfectionist work style (PWS), and perceived oppressiveness of the organization (OOP) measures, explains 12.4% of the variation in burnout levels. This confirms that overburden with work can be a factor contributing to the increase in burnout measures. The constructed logistic regression model showed that increase in the level of occupational burnout by 1 point, the chance of nurse having at least three sick leaves per year increases 1.029 times (i.e., by about 2.9%). None of working excessively measures affected the frequency of sick leaves. CONCLUSION: (1) Excessive workload increases burnout symptoms, which in turn encourages nurses to take sick leave more frequently. (2) The tendency for nurses to overburden themselves with work may be seen by hospital managers as a positive phenomenon, but, based on this study, it is clear that this can only be done in the short term, whereas in the long term it will be clearly detrimental to the organization of hospitals and the quality of care.
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spelling pubmed-70521762020-03-10 Working Excessively and Burnout Among Nurses in the Context of Sick Leaves Kowalczuk, Krystyna Krajewska-Kułak, Elżbieta Sobolewski, Marek Front Psychol Psychology INTRODUCTION: Nurses are particularly at risk of being affected by professional burnout because of the unique patient – caregiver relationship, which requires strong emotional involvement. AIM: In this study, we decided to examine the mutual correlations of working excessively and burnout – two basic occurrences affecting the mental well-being of employees – and their relationship with sick leave. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was conducted among 460 nurses working in 3 hospitals in Poland. The polish version of Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Working Excessively Questionnaire developed by Paluchowski were used to conduct the survey. All the demographic data and data on sick leaves were obtained from surveys in the form of respondents’ self-reports. RESULTS: The constructed regression model shows that the tendency to work excessively, as assessed by loss of control over work (LCW), perfectionist work style (PWS), and perceived oppressiveness of the organization (OOP) measures, explains 12.4% of the variation in burnout levels. This confirms that overburden with work can be a factor contributing to the increase in burnout measures. The constructed logistic regression model showed that increase in the level of occupational burnout by 1 point, the chance of nurse having at least three sick leaves per year increases 1.029 times (i.e., by about 2.9%). None of working excessively measures affected the frequency of sick leaves. CONCLUSION: (1) Excessive workload increases burnout symptoms, which in turn encourages nurses to take sick leave more frequently. (2) The tendency for nurses to overburden themselves with work may be seen by hospital managers as a positive phenomenon, but, based on this study, it is clear that this can only be done in the short term, whereas in the long term it will be clearly detrimental to the organization of hospitals and the quality of care. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7052176/ /pubmed/32158416 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00285 Text en Copyright © 2020 Kowalczuk, Krajewska-Kułak and Sobolewski. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Kowalczuk, Krystyna
Krajewska-Kułak, Elżbieta
Sobolewski, Marek
Working Excessively and Burnout Among Nurses in the Context of Sick Leaves
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title_full Working Excessively and Burnout Among Nurses in the Context of Sick Leaves
title_fullStr Working Excessively and Burnout Among Nurses in the Context of Sick Leaves
title_full_unstemmed Working Excessively and Burnout Among Nurses in the Context of Sick Leaves
title_short Working Excessively and Burnout Among Nurses in the Context of Sick Leaves
title_sort working excessively and burnout among nurses in the context of sick leaves
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7052176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32158416
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00285
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