Burnout among Nurses Working in Psychiatric Hospital

Abstract

The aim of study was to assess the level of burnout and to identifying the factors that contributed to burnout among nurses working in psychiatric hospital.The study conducted on 180 nursesworking at Abbasyia hospital for psychiatric and mental health, affiliated to Ministry of health, using descriptive design. The data collection tools involved a socio-demographic interviewing sheet, andfactors that contribute to the burnout among the studied nurses, in addition to the staff burnout scale for health professionals (SBS-HP), and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). The findings of the study showed that there were many factors among nurses who working in psychiatric hospitals that contributed to burnout. The majority of studied nurses had “average” level of burnout, and the minority of them suffered from “high” level of burnout. The studyconcluded that there was statistically significant relation between the level of burnout and the factors contributing burnout (p<0, 05), statistically significant relation between the general health status and the factors contributing burnout among the studied nurses (p<0, 05), and there was high statistical significant relation between the level of burnout and the general health status of the studied sample (p<0, 001).The study recommended that the organizations shouldconduct regular training courses for nurses working in psychiatric hospitals in order to manage the art of stress - management and develop healthy coping strategies to neutralize the negative impacts of workload - provide save environment for psychiatric nurses - improving and maximizing hospital resources.