Burnout in healthcare professionals during covid-19 crisis
Burnout during covid-19 crisis
Abstract
Background: Since 2019, the COVID-19 disease has led to the death and disability of many people all over the world and the treatment staff has been providing services around the clock. Therefore, psychological burnout among them is highly possible. So far, no study has compared the incidence of mental burnout between doctors and nurses in the emergency department. This study has compared the psychological burnout between doctors and nurses in the emergency department during COVID-19.
Methods: This cross-sectional study included 67 doctors and nurses working in the Emergency Department of Imam Reza Hospital of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences who had been working there during the COVID-19 crisis. The instrument of study was the standard Copenhagen psychological burnout questionnaire. After obtaining the written consent, the questionnaire was distributed among the doctors and nurses of the emergency department. The data was graded by Excel software and data analysis was conducted by SPSS V. 22 software.
Results: According to the comparison of the high burnout rate in the Copenhagen burnout scale, 50% of doctors and 57.1% of nurses had personal burnout, 56.8% of doctors and 66.7% of nurses had work-related burnout, 69.4% of doctors and 69% of nurses had patient-related burnout, and the overall rate of high burnout in doctors was reported as 62.9% and nurses as 70.4%. No statistically significant difference was observed in terms of personal burnout between doctors and nurses of the emergency department (P = 0.347). Also, no statistically significant difference was observed in terms of work-related, patient-related, and overall burnouts between the two groups (P = 0.066), (P = 0.696), and (P = 0.108). Yet, there was a statistically significant difference in terms of gender distribution between the two groups (P = 0.001).
Conclusion: The level of mental burnout of doctors and nurses working in the Emergency Department of Imam Reza General Hospital during the COVID-19 crisis was at an average high. Thus, improving the conditions of medical environments in health centers can reduce the burnout of working doctors and nurses, especially during epidemic conditions, which will increase the quality of medical services.
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