Burnout among Trainees in King Abdullah Medical City Training Center, Makkah

Abstract

Background: Burnout is a rising concern amongst healthcare professionals and has been studied and classified as a psychological disorder, resulting from physical and emotional overload involved in the training periods. Objective: This study aims to identify the burnout among trainees, based on individual trainee response, and examine the possible existing relationships between the magnitudes of burnout syndrome and selected variables. Subjects and Methods: It is a Cross-Sectional design undertaken in a training center at specialized hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Valid sample collected from 420 trainees using Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), which was designed with the goal of assessing an individual's experience of burnout survey. Results: shows that the personal achievement was impacted the mostly, which shows that the participants have less personal achievement, that is, less competence and successful achievement in one's work with people. Depersonalization comes as second affected dimension of burnout that means unfeeling and impersonal response toward recipients of one's service & care. Lastly, emotional exhaustion was the third dimension in prevalence among the trainees. Finally, the Pearson correlation test result shows that moderate positive significant link between the emotional exhaustion, depersonalization with Burnout among trainees. In addition, result showed a significant relationship between the dimensions of burnout and training level. In regards to smoking status and training level showed a significant relationship with the severity of burnout. Conclusion and Recommendations: healthcare organizations should focus on the need of assessing trainees’ burnout, as that will provide basic understanding of the perceptions of their burnout level during training periods. Personal and institutional based reforms focused on improving the work environment of residents & trainees, may lead to a significant reduction in the levels of burnout. More studies are needed to understand the coping mechanisms to prevent and reduce the effects of burnout among trainees.