Relationship between job burnout and cognitive function and influencing factors of job burn out among medical staff

Abstract

To explore the relationship between job burnout and cognitive function and the influencing factors of job burnout among medical staff. Questionnaire survey was conducted for 197 medical workers in a grade-three general hospital in Beijing. Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) was carried out to assess the degree of job burnout among medical staff; Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) was used to evaluate the overall cognitive function and cognitive situations of different dimensions. (1) There was a certain level of job burnout among medical staff, especially for the emotional exhaustion dimension (13.29 ± 7.67). (2) High level job burnout group (81.08 ± 12.34) scored lower on visual span than low level job burnout group (92.48 ± 19.62), P<0.05. Overall, job burnout had a negative influence on the general cognitive function (P<0.05). (3) The results of regression analysis indicated that, inefficacy was negatively correlated with age (r=-0.162, P<0.05). Job burnout was positively correlated with level of education (r=0.234, P<0.05) as well as exercise frequency (r=0.320, P< 0.001), and emotional exhaustion was correlated with overtime work (r=0.135, P<0.05); Level of job burnout stayed higher among doctors and nurses, compared with administration staff in hospitals (t=2.966, P<0.05). Job burnout of medical staff was relatively in high level; influenced by age, education level, overtime work, exercise frequency and occupational type, job burnout affected the visual span and general cognitive function.