Abstract
Nurses in primary health care (PHC) have multiple responsibilities but must often work with limited resources. The study’s aim was to estimate burnout levels among PHC nurses. A Quantitative, observational, cross-sectional, multicentre study of 338 nurses working in PHC in the Andalusian Public Health Service (Spain) is presented. A total of 40.24% of the nurses studied had high levels of burnout. The dimensions of emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation were significantly associated with anxiety, depression, neuroticism, on-call duty and seniority-profession and inversely related to agreeableness. In addition, depersonalisation was significantly associated with gender, and emotional exhaustion correlated inversely with age. Personal achievement was inversely associated with anxiety and depression and positively correlated with agreeableness, extraversion and responsibility. There is a high prevalence of burnout among nurses in PHC. Those most likely to suffer burnout syndrome are relatively young, suffer from anxiety and depression and present high scores for neuroticism and low ones for agreeableness, responsibility and extraversion.
Highlights
Primary health care (PHC) can be defined as basic, essential health care that is accessible to all members of a community
The cost of the service must be affordable to the participants, the community and the country. These considerations were highlighted at an international conference in this respect held in Alma-Ata in September 1978, where the urgent need was expressed for all governments and personnel involved in the development and promotion of health care to work for its universal availability [1]
With respect to personality factors, the results show that PHC nurses who obtain high scores for neuroticism and low ones for agreeableness, responsibility and extraversion are at risk of presenting burnout syndrome
Summary
Primary health care (PHC) can be defined as basic, essential health care that is accessible to all members of a community. The cost of the service must be affordable to the participants, the community and the country. These considerations were highlighted at an international conference in this respect held in Alma-Ata in September 1978, where the urgent need was expressed for all governments and personnel involved in the development and promotion of health care to work for its universal availability [1]. According to a recent study, countries which emphasise the provision of PHC are better able to achieve their sustainable development goals and to promote the fairness and social justice on which the provision of universal health care is based [2]. Public Health 2019, 16, 3242; doi:10.3390/ijerph16183242 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
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