Abstract:
ABSTRACT
Background: Burnout is a psychological syndrome which is a serious public health concern
affecting a large number of health care workers which have its own effect on patient safety and
service quality each also an impact on life of patient around the world. Evidence from studies
showed that health care workers suffer highly from burnout syndrome. In Ethiopia, there is
limited information about burnout syndrome among health care workers and the work-related
factors. So this study help to develop evidence based intervention strategy to reduce the burden
of burnout syndrome among health care workers.
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of burnout syndrome and
associated factors among health care workers in Gulele sub-city public hospitals, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, 2019.
Methods: Institution based cross-sectional study design was conducted from March 10 to May
3, 2019. Stratified random sampling with Simple random sampling techniques was used to
select 556 study participants. The standardized Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human service
survey questionnaire was used to collect the data. The data was entered into EPI info version
7 and exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. Logistic regression analyses were used. The
significant level was obtained at p-value less than 0.05.
Result:-From the total of 556 questionnaires that were distributed 525 were valid and
completed questionnaires were returned, which gives a response rate of 94%. The prevalence
of burnout syndrome among health care workers in this study is 31.6% (95%CI: 27.8, 36).
Among the study participants 42%, 43% and 45% of respondent were highly emotional
exhausted (EE), felt depersonalization (DP) and low personal achievements (PA) respectively.
Age (AOR=0.4, 95% CI: 0.2, 0.9) shift work (AOR=3.355, 95%CI: 1.83, 6.2) satisfaction
(AOR=2.081 95%CI: 1.3, 3.3) and educational level (AOR=6.329, 95%CI: 2.3-17.5) were
factors significantly associated with burnout syndrome.
Conclusion:-This study shows that a high proportion of health care workers were suffering
from burnout. Educational level, duty shift work and satisfaction with work were associated
factors for burnout. Therefore, intervention focusing on shift work management, educational
level and satisfaction on health care workers are essential to reduce the problem.
