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Burnout and Associated Factors among Hospital-Based Nurses in Northern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey
BACKGROUND: Burnout is a public health problem that disproportionately affects nurses in sub-Saharan Africa because of the weak health systems that create an unconducive workplace environment. In Uganda, there is limited evidence on the burden of burnout among nurses in a manner that undermine advoc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8970891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35372575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8231564 |
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author | Udho, Samson Kabunga, Amir |
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description | BACKGROUND: Burnout is a public health problem that disproportionately affects nurses in sub-Saharan Africa because of the weak health systems that create an unconducive workplace environment. In Uganda, there is limited evidence on the burden of burnout among nurses in a manner that undermine advocacy and policy formulation. We aimed to assess the level of burnout and associated factors among nurses in northern Uganda. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional survey conducted among 375 randomly selected nurses from health facilities in northern Uganda. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Data analysis consisted of descriptive statistics and logistic regression at a 95% level of significance in SPSS version 25. RESULTS: Majority of the respondents were female 56.5% (n = 223). Nearly half, 49.1% (n = 194) of respondents had high levels of burnout, 36.2% (n = 143) reported average levels of burnout, and 14.7% (n = 58) reported low levels of burnout. Factors associated with burnout were age (AOR: 2.90; 95% CI: 1.28-6.58; p = 0.011), social support (AOR: 0.45; 95% CI: 0.22-0.94; p = 0.033), healthy eating (AOR: 0.06; 95% CI: 0.02-0.22; p < 0.001), workload (AOR: 0.31; 95% CI: 0.14-0.68; p = 0.004), and management responsibilities (AOR: 3.07; 95% CI: 1.54-6.12; p = 0.001). CONCLUSION: Half of the nurses in northern Uganda experienced high levels of burnout. The Ministry of Health should consider recruiting more nurses to reduce workload and adjust working hours to prevent workplace-related burnout among nurses in the country. |
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spelling | pubmed-89708912022-04-01 Burnout and Associated Factors among Hospital-Based Nurses in Northern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey Udho, Samson Kabunga, Amir Biomed Res Int Research Article BACKGROUND: Burnout is a public health problem that disproportionately affects nurses in sub-Saharan Africa because of the weak health systems that create an unconducive workplace environment. In Uganda, there is limited evidence on the burden of burnout among nurses in a manner that undermine advocacy and policy formulation. We aimed to assess the level of burnout and associated factors among nurses in northern Uganda. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional survey conducted among 375 randomly selected nurses from health facilities in northern Uganda. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Data analysis consisted of descriptive statistics and logistic regression at a 95% level of significance in SPSS version 25. RESULTS: Majority of the respondents were female 56.5% (n = 223). Nearly half, 49.1% (n = 194) of respondents had high levels of burnout, 36.2% (n = 143) reported average levels of burnout, and 14.7% (n = 58) reported low levels of burnout. Factors associated with burnout were age (AOR: 2.90; 95% CI: 1.28-6.58; p = 0.011), social support (AOR: 0.45; 95% CI: 0.22-0.94; p = 0.033), healthy eating (AOR: 0.06; 95% CI: 0.02-0.22; p < 0.001), workload (AOR: 0.31; 95% CI: 0.14-0.68; p = 0.004), and management responsibilities (AOR: 3.07; 95% CI: 1.54-6.12; p = 0.001). CONCLUSION: Half of the nurses in northern Uganda experienced high levels of burnout. The Ministry of Health should consider recruiting more nurses to reduce workload and adjust working hours to prevent workplace-related burnout among nurses in the country. Hindawi 2022-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8970891/ /pubmed/35372575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8231564 Text en Copyright © 2022 Samson Udho and Amir Kabunga. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Udho, Samson Kabunga, Amir Burnout and Associated Factors among Hospital-Based Nurses in Northern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title | Burnout and Associated Factors among Hospital-Based Nurses in Northern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_full | Burnout and Associated Factors among Hospital-Based Nurses in Northern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_fullStr | Burnout and Associated Factors among Hospital-Based Nurses in Northern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Burnout and Associated Factors among Hospital-Based Nurses in Northern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_short | Burnout and Associated Factors among Hospital-Based Nurses in Northern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_sort | burnout and associated factors among hospital-based nurses in northern uganda: a cross-sectional survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8970891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35372575 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8231564 |
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