Is there any relationship between general health and job burnout? A cross sectional study in Zahedan 2016

Mahboobeh Doostkami, Maryam Sarbishegi

Anatomy Department, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.

ABSTRACT

Nurse s health and wellbeing is important because the quality of services they provide to patients depend on that. Job burnout is one of them most important factors caused by workplace pressure and tension that can threaten individual s health. So this study aimed to investigate that is there any relationship between general health and job burnout? 48 operating room staff participated this study. GHQ-28 standard questionnaire and Maslach s job burnout questionnaire were used for data collection. After that data were analyzed through SPSS v.19 by descriptive statistics, Pearson s correlation and T test. 11 males and 37 females participated this study which 14 of them were single and 34 were married. The mean of age was 30.12 ± 5.56. The mean score of general health was 56.68 ± 9.06 and the mean score of job burnout was 63.08 ± 9.01. There was not any significant relationship between job burnout and general health. Due to the results of this study there wasn’t any significant relationship between job burnout and general health. Staff s health and wellbeing is really important for organizational Productivity. So the managers and authorities must plan for programs which motivate the staff for better working so then they can prevent job burnout.

Keywords: General health, Job burnout, Operating room