The Study of Burnout Syndrome among Registered Nurses in one Hospital during COVID-19 Pandemic
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The purposes of this descriptive research were to study the registered nurses’ burnout syndrome, associated factors of burnout syndrome and compare the differences of burnout syndrome. They were classified according to registered nurses’ responsibility in COVID-19 pandemic between two groups of nurses including frontline (exposure group) and other nurses working in usual wards (non-exposure group). The sample group consisted of 260 registered nurses working in one hospital and they were recruited using a proportional stratified random sampling technique. The instruments were 1) general data form, 2) Suanprung Stress Test-20 (SPST-20), 3) The Maslach burnout inventory (MBI)-Thai version. All questionnaires were tested for content validity by five experts. Their reliability coefficients of SPST-20 and MBI-Thai version were 0.88, and 0.84, respectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, and t-test.
The findings were as follows:
1. The burnout syndrome among registered nurses who had worked during Covid-19 pandemic was found at a high level of exhaustion (Mean = 27.02, SD = 14.40), medium level of inefficiency (Mean = 35.96, SD = 8.95) and low level of cynicism (Mean = 5.46, SD = 6.03).
2. The factors related to burnout syndrome with a statistical significance included economic status (p < .05), stress (p < .01) and registered nurses’ responsibility in COVID-19 pandemic (p < .01)
3. There was a difference between the dimensions of burnout syndrome (exhaustion and cynicism) between groups of frontline (exposure group) and other nurses working in usual wards (non-exposure group) in COVID-19 pandemic with statistical significance at the .01 level.
The burnout syndrome among registered nurses has been observed in all dimension and requires closer monitoring. The burnout intervention for registered nurses should be seriously considered and developed.
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