Burnout among Clinical Staff in Amanuel Specialized Mental Hospital
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2014-12
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Addis Ababa University
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Objective: Burnout has a significant negative impact on the employees,service provided to patients and the organization. As there are no dataon burnout among staff in Amanuel Specialized Mental Hospital, this study sought to document the prevalence of burnout among theclinical staff at the hospital.
Methods: This was a cross sectional study of clinical staff working atAmanuel specialized Mental Hospital. The hospital staff completed selfadministered questionnaires on socio-demographic characteristics and work related features, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory – HumanServices and General Survey, and Oslo social support scale. Analysis ofthe data was undertaken using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21.0.
Results: 40.5% percent of the respondents reported moderate to highlevel of emotional exhaustion while 45.8% reported moderate to highlevel of depersonalization. Low level of personal accomplishment was reported by 36.6%. The number of out-patients seen and male gender were positively associated with depersonalization. The level of social support wasassociated with both depersonalization andemotional exhaustion. Staff made several recommendations how todecrease burnout among the staff.
Conclusion: Significant levels of burnout were reported. These should be addressed at an individual, and institutional levels. More studies areneeded to identify the risk factors.
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Burnout