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Influence of Mutual Support on Burnout among Intensive Care Unit Healthcare Professionals

INTRODUCTION: Burnout among healthcare professionals in intensive care units (ICUs) is a serious issue that leads to early retirement and medication errors. Their gender, lower years of experience, and lower education have been reported as risk factors. Simultaneously, mutual support—commonly referr...

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Autores principales: Haruna, Junpei, Unoki, Takeshi, Ishikawa, Koji, Okamura, Hideaki, Kamada, Yoshinobu, Hashimoto, Naoya
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8915210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35284634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608221084977
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author Haruna, Junpei
Unoki, Takeshi
Ishikawa, Koji
Okamura, Hideaki
Kamada, Yoshinobu
Hashimoto, Naoya
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Unoki, Takeshi
Ishikawa, Koji
Okamura, Hideaki
Kamada, Yoshinobu
Hashimoto, Naoya
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description INTRODUCTION: Burnout among healthcare professionals in intensive care units (ICUs) is a serious issue that leads to early retirement and medication errors. Their gender, lower years of experience, and lower education have been reported as risk factors. Simultaneously, mutual support—commonly referred to as “back-up behavior,” in which staff members support each other—is critical for team performance. However, little is known about the influence of mutual support among ICU healthcare professionals on burnout. The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality refers to mutual support as the involvement of team members in: assisting one another, providing and receiving feedback, and exerting assertive and advocacy behaviors when patient safety is threatened. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to verify the hypothesis that lower mutual support among ICU healthcare professionals is associated with increased probability of burnout. METHODS: A web-based survey was conducted from March 4 to 20, 2021. All ICU healthcare professionals in Japan were included. An invitation was sent via the mailing list of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine and asked to mail to local communities and social network services. We measured burnout severity using the Maslach Burnout-Human Services Survey and mutual support using the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire, as well as occupational background. The cutoff value for burnout was predefined and conducted logistic regression. RESULTS: We received 335 responses, all of which were analyzed. The majority of respondents were nurses (58.5%), followed by physicians (18.5%) and clinical engineers (10.1%). The burnout group scored significantly lower on mutual support than the non-burnout group. After adjusting for covariates in a logistic regression, low mutual support was an independent factor predicting a high probability of burnout. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that it is important to focus on mutual support among ICU healthcare professionals to reduce the frequency of burnout.
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spelling pubmed-89152102022-03-12 Influence of Mutual Support on Burnout among Intensive Care Unit Healthcare Professionals Haruna, Junpei Unoki, Takeshi Ishikawa, Koji Okamura, Hideaki Kamada, Yoshinobu Hashimoto, Naoya SAGE Open Nurs Original Research Article INTRODUCTION: Burnout among healthcare professionals in intensive care units (ICUs) is a serious issue that leads to early retirement and medication errors. Their gender, lower years of experience, and lower education have been reported as risk factors. Simultaneously, mutual support—commonly referred to as “back-up behavior,” in which staff members support each other—is critical for team performance. However, little is known about the influence of mutual support among ICU healthcare professionals on burnout. The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality refers to mutual support as the involvement of team members in: assisting one another, providing and receiving feedback, and exerting assertive and advocacy behaviors when patient safety is threatened. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to verify the hypothesis that lower mutual support among ICU healthcare professionals is associated with increased probability of burnout. METHODS: A web-based survey was conducted from March 4 to 20, 2021. All ICU healthcare professionals in Japan were included. An invitation was sent via the mailing list of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine and asked to mail to local communities and social network services. We measured burnout severity using the Maslach Burnout-Human Services Survey and mutual support using the TeamSTEPPS Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire, as well as occupational background. The cutoff value for burnout was predefined and conducted logistic regression. RESULTS: We received 335 responses, all of which were analyzed. The majority of respondents were nurses (58.5%), followed by physicians (18.5%) and clinical engineers (10.1%). The burnout group scored significantly lower on mutual support than the non-burnout group. After adjusting for covariates in a logistic regression, low mutual support was an independent factor predicting a high probability of burnout. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that it is important to focus on mutual support among ICU healthcare professionals to reduce the frequency of burnout. SAGE Publications 2022-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8915210/ /pubmed/35284634 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608221084977 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Okamura, Hideaki
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Hashimoto, Naoya
Influence of Mutual Support on Burnout among Intensive Care Unit Healthcare Professionals
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title_fullStr Influence of Mutual Support on Burnout among Intensive Care Unit Healthcare Professionals
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title_short Influence of Mutual Support on Burnout among Intensive Care Unit Healthcare Professionals
title_sort influence of mutual support on burnout among intensive care unit healthcare professionals
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8915210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35284634
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608221084977
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