The relationship between job burnout and social support in medical staff / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To assess the prevalence and severity of burnout in medical staffs,and investigate associated demographic,perceived social support and job burnout.Methods Totally 618 medical staffs form Sichuan province people's hospital were selected by the systematic sampling method,and were tested by general state questionnaire,job burnout questionnaire and perceived social support scale.Results ①The prevalence of job burnout was 75.6％,including mild job burnout (36.1％),moderate (32.2％),severe (7.3％).②The scores of emotional exhaustion in the female medical staffs(20.50±8.35) was higher than the male medical staffs (19.07±7.76,P＜0.05).Divorced medical staffs had higher scores(18.28±7.13) than that of single and married medical staffs (15.05±5.00) in low personal accomplishment (P＜ 0.01).The medical personnel of different ages were statistically significant difference in total job burnout scores,emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation (F=4.475,3.061,3.942,all P＜0.05).The medical personnel of different post,professional title and working years were statistically significant difference in total job burnout scores and emotional exhaustion (F=6.920,13.968; 3.506,3.391;3.190,3.300,all P＜ 0.05).The medical personnel of different educational attainment were statistically significant difference in total job burnout scores,emotional exhaustion and low personal accomplishment(F=6.218,2.837,2.850,all P＜0.05).)Correlation analysis found that emotional exhaustion,depersonalisation,low personal accomplishment and total job burnout respectively with family support,friend support,and other support and total social support was significantly negative correlation (r=-0.126～-0.403,P＜0.01).④Regression analysis showed that education,family and friends support were protective factors for total job burnout(OR=-0.248,95％ CI =0.625-0.975 ; OR=-0.084,95％ CI =0.862-0.980 ; OR=-0.091,95％ CI =0.860-0.968 ; all P＜0.05).Conclusion The prevalence of job burnout is high in medical staffs.The medical staffs of different sex,age,title,jobs,education,working years,marital status are showed the differences job burnout scores,which is closely related to the perceived social support.