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Predictors of Burnout in Social Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Scenario for Analysis
The current health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic increases the stress and anxiety levels in some professions, including social work. The present research aimed to determine the burnout levels of social workers in Spain during the first wave of the pandemic and the predictive variables....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8158736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34069394 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105416 |
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author | Martínez-López, José Ángel Lázaro-Pérez, Cristina Gómez-Galán, José |
author_facet | Martínez-López, José Ángel Lázaro-Pérez, Cristina Gómez-Galán, José |
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description | The current health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic increases the stress and anxiety levels in some professions, including social work. The present research aimed to determine the burnout levels of social workers in Spain during the first wave of the pandemic and the predictive variables. The methodological approach used was developed from a quantitative perspective through a simple random sampling from the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) on a sample of Spanish social workers. The results showed high levels of emotional exhaustion (70.1%) and depersonalization (48.5%), although the data related to a reduced sense of personal accomplishment (36.6%) was low. The burnout level was 20.4%, a reduced record considering the values of the first two subscales. In contrast, the logistic regressions carried out showed that teleworking and psychological treatment are predictive variables of emotional exhaustion. With depersonalization, age (41–50 years) and the perception of needing psychological or psychiatric treatment in the future act as predictive variables. In critical scenarios such as a pandemic, work organizations should implement measures to reduce the high percentages of emotional exhaustion, the workload, and the dehumanization of professionals, a consequence linked to depersonalization. |
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spelling | pubmed-81587362021-05-28 Predictors of Burnout in Social Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Scenario for Analysis Martínez-López, José Ángel Lázaro-Pérez, Cristina Gómez-Galán, José Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The current health crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic increases the stress and anxiety levels in some professions, including social work. The present research aimed to determine the burnout levels of social workers in Spain during the first wave of the pandemic and the predictive variables. The methodological approach used was developed from a quantitative perspective through a simple random sampling from the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) on a sample of Spanish social workers. The results showed high levels of emotional exhaustion (70.1%) and depersonalization (48.5%), although the data related to a reduced sense of personal accomplishment (36.6%) was low. The burnout level was 20.4%, a reduced record considering the values of the first two subscales. In contrast, the logistic regressions carried out showed that teleworking and psychological treatment are predictive variables of emotional exhaustion. With depersonalization, age (41–50 years) and the perception of needing psychological or psychiatric treatment in the future act as predictive variables. In critical scenarios such as a pandemic, work organizations should implement measures to reduce the high percentages of emotional exhaustion, the workload, and the dehumanization of professionals, a consequence linked to depersonalization. MDPI 2021-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8158736/ /pubmed/34069394 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105416 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Martínez-López, José Ángel Lázaro-Pérez, Cristina Gómez-Galán, José Predictors of Burnout in Social Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Scenario for Analysis |
title | Predictors of Burnout in Social Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Scenario for Analysis |
title_full | Predictors of Burnout in Social Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Scenario for Analysis |
title_fullStr | Predictors of Burnout in Social Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Scenario for Analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Predictors of Burnout in Social Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Scenario for Analysis |
title_short | Predictors of Burnout in Social Workers: The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Scenario for Analysis |
title_sort | predictors of burnout in social workers: the covid-19 pandemic as a scenario for analysis |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8158736/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34069394 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105416 |
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