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Background: Job burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressorsObjectives: This study aimed to evaluate job burnout and identify its effective predictors among health sector employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: This cross-sectional study encompassed 1898 employees of the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in the sum-mer of 2020. Logistic regression was used to determine factors associated with job burnout. The required data were collected elec-tronically using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and analyzed with SPSS software version 26 and R4.0.2 software.Results: Of 1898 participants, 74.3% were female. Composite job burnout (CJB), emotional exhaustion (EE), and depersonalization (DP) were the most common at low levels, whereas reduced personal accomplishment (RPA) was the most frequent at moderate levels. In this regard, factors such as female gender, age groups of 40 -49 and >= 50 years, and exposure to COVID-19 were the main independent risk factors for job burnout.Conclusions: Reduced personal accomplishment was moderate despite relatively low levels of job burnout, EE, and DP. Accordingly, effective interventions are suggested to improve different aspects of the work-life with an emphasis on critical situations. Moreover, regarding the significant relationship between job burnout with gender, age, and exposure to COVID-19, it is recommended to in-crease the employees' knowledge about job burnout.
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Recent studies have indicated that fungal co-infections have a major impact on the morbidity and mortality of patients with COVID-19. In these patients, the excessive production of inflammatory cytokines and the reduction in CD4 + T and CD8 + T cell count entails susceptibility to fungal infections.1 In addition to impaired cell-mediated immunity, comorbidities and immunosuppressive medications have a significant role in the development of fungal infections and have serious impacts on clinical outcomes.1-3.