The Relationship between Burnout and Mental Health in Kashan University of Medical Sciences Staff, Iran

Background & Aims of the Study: Professional burnout is a kind of function disorderwhich can be developed due to long exposure to job and mental stress. This can affects onthe physical and mental health of people as well as their performance. So, this study withpurpose of evaluating the rate of professional burning out and its relevance with mentalhealth situation of Kashan University of Medical Sciences staff was performed.Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 500 staffs of hospitalsand health centers in Kashan university of Medical Sciences using share sampling in 2014.Three types of questionnaires were used in this research: Staff demographic characteristicsquestionnaire, Maslesh Burnout questionnaire (MBI) and Goldberg general HealthQuestionnaire. In Maslesh Questionnaire, the mental health frequency of studied units wasevaluated using Likert scale. Data analyzed using SPSS software. T-test, Tukey, ANOVA,Chi-Square and Pearson correlation coefficient.Results Most of subjects were in mild to moderate levels of emotional exhaustion anddepersonalization while they were in mild level in personal accomplishment andprofessional engagement. The prevalence of symptomatic samples in the GHQ-28 was32.8. There was a significant statistical relationship between burnout and mental health interms of sex, depersonalization and emotional exhaustion. The emotional exhaustion washigh in women staffs. However, depersonalization in men was higher. There was asignificant relationship between professional burnout and mental health (P<0.001), while itwas not found a significant relationship between decreasing personal accomplishment andprofessional burnout. The high prevalence of burnout in the dimension of selfaccomplishment, combined with the strong correlation between mental health and burnout,it is essential to respect the authorities in preventing this problemConclusions: Our results show that there is a strong correlation between mental health andburnout. The high prevalence of symptomatic samples and high prevalence of burnout inthe dimension of self accomplishment, combined with the strong correlation betweenmental health and burnout all show that care should be taken to improve the stressfulconditions that Employee face.

Keywords:

Professional burnout , mental health , Kashan , staff