The Effect of Professional Empowerment Model on Job Stress and Burnout of Operating Room Nurses in Educational Hospitals of Zahedan

Abstract

Background: Occupational stress and high work-related burnout have been observed among operating room personnel, so finding any therapeutic aids to alleviate this stress and relieve them is always valuable. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of occupational empowerment model on job stress and burnout in operating room nurses.
 Methods: This quasi-experimental study was performed on all operating room personnel working in the operating rooms of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences hospitals, which numbered more than 250. Thirty 30 operating room personnel were selected and randomly divided into intervention and control groups. The number of research units was 15 persons in each group. Questionnaires used in this study were Nursing Job Stress Questionnaire (NSS) and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Intervention was performed in 4 sessions, two days a week for 2 weeks and completed again after 4 weeks. The control group received no intervention. Descriptive statistics used mean and standard deviation, and inferential statistics, One-way ANOVA, Fisher, Chi-square and t-test were used.
 Results: In the experimental group, the mean occupational stress of the subjects before the intervention was 7966 ± 8.33 Post-intervention was 72.93 ± 8.72. In the control group, the mean of job stress was 84.46 ± 7.32 before and 84.46 ± 7.32 respectively. There was a significant difference between the two groups after the intervention in terms of occupational stress (p value < 0.001) .In the experimental group, mean burnout was 59.26 ± 22.02 before and 56.8 ± 20.79 after the intervention. In the control group, the mean of burnout was 50.66 ± 17.20 before intervention and 51.00 ± 7.43 after intervention. There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of burnout after intervention (p value < 0.05)
 Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that occupational empowerment model reduced stress in operating room staff. The pattern of occupational empowerment was not effective in reducing depression in operating room staff. Operating room staff experience high levels of job stress and burnout, which can cause problems at work time and in the workplace. Holding professional empowerment workshops can help reduce their job stress.