The Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study
Abstract
Employee burnout is a risk in this setting. investigated due to the lack of studies and research. This study evaluates Burnout prevalence, its association, and impacts among the nursing staff who are working in AL-Diwaniyah hospitals. The concept of burnout among healthcare workers is not new, but recently, there has been a lot of national focus on nurses' mental health and how it affects patient safety. The purpose of this study was to examine The Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Nurse at Al-Diwaniyah Hospital using a cross-sectional design. A purposive (non-probability) sample of 25 nurses was employed for the study. The study has been carried out in Al-Diwaniyah Hospital \ Iraq, conducted throughout August 2nd, 2024, to February 2nd, 2025. There were two sections to the questionnaire: Part I is a self-administered survey on the demographics of the sample; Part II is a self-administered questionnaire sheet about burnout based on the Cristina Maslach Burnout Inventory. A study found that there is a moderate level of burnout among medical personnel, where a burnout rate was 56%.ALSO shows that there is a nonsignificant association among the nurses' burnout and their gender according to (Kruskal-Wallis) at p-value (.341), and that there is a nonsignificant association among the nurses' burnout and their workplace, age, while there is a significant to marital status according to (Mann-Whitney U ). According to this study, the participants in the study were moderate level of burnout among nurses ‘staff (56%) which is mostly related Some factors included in our survey such as Fear of contracting communicable diseases, Increased effort at work and as a result Feeling stressed and tired at the end of the day, Insufficient monthly income for some medical personal. Some of the factors that have been included, such as increased working hours, exposure to professional pressures that exceed their ability to bear, being in constant confrontation with patients’ problems, or the lack of updated guidelines, and high rates of infection among health care providers, have also contributed.
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