Job Burnout and Reduced Personal Accomplishment Among Health Sector Employees During COVID-19 Pandemic

ABSTRACT

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.