Correlation between Occupational Stress and Burnout in Rehabilitation Center Employees of Kashan, Iran

Aims Stress is considered as a psychological phenomenon that inflicts human beings in themodern societies. Burnout is a psychological or behavioral state which occurs as individual’sperformance quality deteriorates. This study aimed to investigate the level of burnout andoccupational stress in Kashan rehabilitating centers staffs.Materials & Methods This descriptive study was done on all 298 nurse assistants ofKashan rehabilitation centers in 2013. Data collected using Health and Safety ExecutiveQuestionnaire (HSE) and Maslach burnout inventory (MBI) . Data were analyzed by theExcel and SPSS 16 software. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to assess relationshipbetween stress dimension and occupation burnout factors.Findings The average of occupational stress was 3.65±0.51 and the average of burnout was29.67±4.38. Occupational groups had no significant correlation with occupational stress(p=0.86) but had a significant correlation with burnout (p=0.006). There were significantpositive correlations between occupational stress parameters and burnout parameters.Just the peer support of occupational stress had no correlations with success, emotionalexhaustion and general burnout.Conclusion Deterioration of stressful parameters in occupational environment can mitigatedamaging effects of burnout syndromes.

Keywords:

Stress , Psychological , Burnout , Professional , Nursing Staff , Social Environment