Burnout among the Nurses of Kashan Beheshti Hospital During 2014

Aims: Research suggests that burnout levels have always been higher in the health‑care populations and the nurses were at high risk too. It canincrease staff turnover and reduce the quality of care. Hence, this study was performed with the purpose of evaluating the rate of professionalburnout in the nurses of Beheshti hospital’s staff. Materials and Methods: The study population comprised 230 nurses of the Beheshti hospitalof Medical Sciences using sampling in 2014. Maslach Burnout Inventory and staff demographic characteristics questionnaire were used in thisstudy. Data were analyzed using the SPSS software, Pearson’s independent, Fisher’s exact test, ANOVA, and Chi‑square test. Results: Mostof the participants were in mild‑to‑moderate levels of exhaustion. they had mild level until severe in depersonalization, and mild in reducedpersonal accomplishment. however, burnout was higher in women . Health‑care staff nurses had a higher level of job burnout than that ofadministrative staffs (P < 0.001). Conclusions: The findings suggest the research focused could yield important advances in understandingburnout in this group and yield potential interventions to buffer burnout and its consequences.

Keywords:

Burnout , the nurses , the staffs of Kashan medical university