Abstract
Introduction: Burnout syndrome is one of the consequences and the results of occupational or job stress emerged in the form of emotional exhaustion feeling, depersonalization and decrement personal accomplishment. The aim of this study was to determine the occupational stress and its relationship with burnout syndrome in the academic members of Lorestan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted on 111 of the faculty members via multistage sampling. Data were collected by the questionnaire of Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and Osipow Occupational Stress Inventory (OSI- R). Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics as well as analytical statistics such as chi square, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann Whitney tests and Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: The results showed that the most of the participants had a low level of burnout three dimensions including emotional burnout (72.1%), depersonalization (81.1%), and the decrement of personal accomplishment (56.8%). Moreover 79.3% of samples had a low occupational stress, but there was a meaningful relationship between occupational stress and dimensions of burnout syndrome with an exception for the intensity of decrement of personal accomplishment. Conclusion: Academic members were in an appropriate condition concerning burnout syndrome and occupational stress. However by applying some strategies to decrease stress and determining stress resources, we can improve their psychological health of academic members.
Highlights
Burnout syndrome is one of the consequences and the results of occupational or job stress emerged in the form of emotional exhaustion feeling, depersonalization and decrement personal accomplishment
The results indicated that the half of participants in the decrement of personal accomplishment dimension were moderate to severe situation, but, the most of them the level of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization of participants were at low (Table 1)
The results showed that there was a positive correlation between job stress and burnout dimensions in terms of frequency and intensity of emotional exhaustion, intensity and frequency of depersonalization and frequency of decrement of personal accomplishment (r=0.375, P=0.001)
Summary
Burnout syndrome is one of the consequences and the results of occupational or job stress emerged in the form of emotional exhaustion feeling, depersonalization and decrement personal accomplishment. Occupational stress is a physical and mental response emerged through interaction of an individual with working environment and mismatching his or her work needs with his or her abilities and demands. This tenseness occurs in all jobs, but this issue receives especially much more attention and importance in the jobs when they are dealing with human health.[2] One of the important issues affecting on professors performance and their efficiencies is a mental pressure resulting from their gradual burnout. Occupational burnout is a psychological process which is the result of a long-term pattern of unsafe and unsound interaction between an individual and his or her workplace or atmosphere.[5]
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