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Burnout among Iranian nurses: a national survey
BACKGROUND: Nurses, particularly critical care nurses, are exposed to high levels of stress and burnout. Burnout is associated with many deleterious consequences affecting health care outcomes. The present study is intended to determine the dimensions of burnout in nurses on surgical, medical and cr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364314/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32690983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00461-7 |
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author | Mahmoudi, Sara Barkhordari-Sharifabad, Maasoumeh Pishgooie, Amir-Hosein Atashzadeh-Shoorideh, Foroozan Lotfi, Zahra |
author_facet | Mahmoudi, Sara Barkhordari-Sharifabad, Maasoumeh Pishgooie, Amir-Hosein Atashzadeh-Shoorideh, Foroozan Lotfi, Zahra |
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description | BACKGROUND: Nurses, particularly critical care nurses, are exposed to high levels of stress and burnout. Burnout is associated with many deleterious consequences affecting health care outcomes. The present study is intended to determine the dimensions of burnout in nurses on surgical, medical and critical care units and its relationship with demographic characteristics. METHODS: In this descriptive research study, performed at critical and non- critical care units, 743 nurses were randomly selected by quota sampling from medical sciences universities in Iran. Data collection instruments included a “demographic questionnaire” and the “Persian version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. Data were analyzed using SPSS20. RESULTS: The findings showed that regarding all dimensions, the lowest level of burnout belonged to surgical wards whereas the highest level pertained to critical care wards indicating a significant difference among various aspects of burnout in different wards, i.e., surgery, medical, and critical care. There was no significant difference in gender, academic degree, and marital status in any of the aspects of burnout in critical care units; yet, the difference was significant between surgical and medical wards (P < 0.05). There were a negative significant correlation between some dimensions of burnout with age and nursing experience in critical care and medical wards (P < 0.05). Whereas in surgical wards, there were a positive significant correlation between some aspects of burnout with nursing experience and age (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: This study found that the critical care nurses have significantly higher level of burnout compared to the medical-surgical nurses. These results should be considered when planning burnout prevention schedules for nurses. |
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spelling | pubmed-73643142020-07-16 Burnout among Iranian nurses: a national survey Mahmoudi, Sara Barkhordari-Sharifabad, Maasoumeh Pishgooie, Amir-Hosein Atashzadeh-Shoorideh, Foroozan Lotfi, Zahra BMC Nurs Research Article BACKGROUND: Nurses, particularly critical care nurses, are exposed to high levels of stress and burnout. Burnout is associated with many deleterious consequences affecting health care outcomes. The present study is intended to determine the dimensions of burnout in nurses on surgical, medical and critical care units and its relationship with demographic characteristics. METHODS: In this descriptive research study, performed at critical and non- critical care units, 743 nurses were randomly selected by quota sampling from medical sciences universities in Iran. Data collection instruments included a “demographic questionnaire” and the “Persian version of the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. Data were analyzed using SPSS20. RESULTS: The findings showed that regarding all dimensions, the lowest level of burnout belonged to surgical wards whereas the highest level pertained to critical care wards indicating a significant difference among various aspects of burnout in different wards, i.e., surgery, medical, and critical care. There was no significant difference in gender, academic degree, and marital status in any of the aspects of burnout in critical care units; yet, the difference was significant between surgical and medical wards (P < 0.05). There were a negative significant correlation between some dimensions of burnout with age and nursing experience in critical care and medical wards (P < 0.05). Whereas in surgical wards, there were a positive significant correlation between some aspects of burnout with nursing experience and age (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: This study found that the critical care nurses have significantly higher level of burnout compared to the medical-surgical nurses. These results should be considered when planning burnout prevention schedules for nurses. BioMed Central 2020-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7364314/ /pubmed/32690983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00461-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Mahmoudi, Sara Barkhordari-Sharifabad, Maasoumeh Pishgooie, Amir-Hosein Atashzadeh-Shoorideh, Foroozan Lotfi, Zahra Burnout among Iranian nurses: a national survey |
title | Burnout among Iranian nurses: a national survey |
title_full | Burnout among Iranian nurses: a national survey |
title_fullStr | Burnout among Iranian nurses: a national survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Burnout among Iranian nurses: a national survey |
title_short | Burnout among Iranian nurses: a national survey |
title_sort | burnout among iranian nurses: a national survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364314/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32690983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00461-7 |
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