Abstract
Background: burnout syndrome is a serious and growing problem among medical staff. Its adverse outcomes not only affect health-care providers’ health, but also extend to their patients, resulting in bad-quality care. The COVID-19 pandemic puts frontline health-care providers at greater risk of psychological stress and burnout syndrome. Objectives: this study aimed to identify the levels of burnout among health-care professionals currently working at Assiut University hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: the current study adopted an online cross-sectional design using the SurveyMonkey® website for data collection. A total of 201 physicians were included and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) scale was used to assess the three burnout syndrome dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. Results: about one-third, two-thirds, and one-quarter of the respondents had high emotional exhaustion, high depersonalization, and low personal accomplishment, respectively. Younger, resident, and single physicians reported higher burnout scores. The personal accomplishment score was significantly higher among males. Those working more than eight hours/day and dealing with COVID-19 patients had significantly higher scores. Conclusion: during the COVID-19 pandemic, a high prevalence of burnout was recorded among physicians. Age, job title, working duration, and working hours/day were significant predictors for burnout syndrome subscale results. Preventive and interventive programs should be applied in health-care organizations during pandemics.
Highlights
IntroductionBurnout syndrome (BOS) is a common occupational and public-health problem, and recently, its importance and rates have been rising [1]
Introduction published maps and institutional affilBurnout syndrome (BOS) is a common occupational and public-health problem, and recently, its importance and rates have been rising [1]
Workers in highly stressful jobs are at higher risk of job burnout, such as health-care workers (HCWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic
Summary
Burnout syndrome (BOS) is a common occupational and public-health problem, and recently, its importance and rates have been rising [1] It is defined as a state of psychological, emotional, and physical stress that occurs due to prolonged periods of exposure to chronic occupational stressors [2]. As HCWs have to take care of infected patients, they face higher rates of infection/fatality and the fear of transmitting the infection to their families. All of these factors lead to high social and mental pressure on HCWs dealing with the current pandemic [3,4]. BOS was first described by Maslach et al, in 1996 [6], and was commonly observed in those who work with people and whose jobs are characteriations
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