Prevalence of Nurses Burnout and its Determinant Factors in Public Hospitals, Addis Ababa
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Burnout is an important problem in health care professionals and nurses aremore exposed to professional burnout due to their exposure to physical, mental, and emotionalstressors, which can lead to numerous complications in their personal, social, andorganizational life , which is a decrease in occupational well-being and an increase inabsenteeism, turnover and illness.
Objectives - to find out the prevalence of nurse’s burnout and to identify its determinant factorsin public hospital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Methodology -A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted using structured self-administered questionnaire in different department and with nurses working in 6 (six) publichospitals in Addis Ababa
Results: A total of 502 questionnaires were distributed with response rate of 88%, which totals440 participants. Were included in this study. 241 (54.8%) suffered from professional burnoutbased on its definition. Among the study participants 271(61.6%) ,114(25.9%) ,55(12.5%)were Emotional Exhaustion( EE) high , moderate ,low respectively .on the other hand the scaleofDepersonalization( DP) of nurses were 169 (38.4%), 146(33.2%),125(28.4%) high,moderate and low respectively .the scale of personal accomplishment( PA) were74(16.8%),129(29.3%).237(53.9%) ,high ,moderate, low respectively . Individual factors suchas demographic variables, sex, health problem (backache) has association with burnout. Workrelated factors such as work area, service year and organizational factors employment sector(public hospitals) were also found to be determinants of burnout in this population.
Conclusions -Burnout rates high in- emergency unit, Gender, services area, service year,current work satisfaction, , health problem are determinants of burnout, as well asorganizational variables.
Recommendation –Independent variables which are significant association with burnoutGender-;males, work area- ICU ,Service years-11-15, Job satisfaction, health problem aresignificantly associated with nurses burnout .So public hospitals administrations and the Federalministry of health has to plan on coping strategies to prevent burnout.
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Nurses Burnout Determinant Factors