Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31306/s.63.1.1
Professional stress and burnout syndrome in intensive psychiatric care and emergency medicine employees
Siniša Debogović
orcid.org/0000-0002-3243-2225
; Klinika za psihijatriju Vrapče, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Iskra Alexandra Nola
; Medicin. fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, ŠKN "Andrija Štampar", Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
In the last decades professional stress taking the form of physical, psychological and social response has been investigated. The dysfunction caused by stress rests on a person's feeling that workplace demands cannot be fulfilled as expected. This is due to a series of factors: overwhelming workload, inadequate job organization, poor communication, and overall work environment. Burnout syndrome occurs as a result of multiple stressors in the workplace and long-term exposure to them. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence and intensity of professional stress and burnout syndrome in intensive psychiatric care and emergency medicine employees. The factors of psychophysiological work-related strains and their relation to higher intensity of stress and burnout syndrome in participants were explored. The survey included 63 intensive psychiatric care employees at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče and 63 employees at the Institute of Emergency Medicine Zagreb. Three standardized self-assessment questionnaires were used. The results obtained by analyzing workplace stress highlight stressor category “Workplace organization and financial issues”. In this particular category 70% (N=88) of all participants believe that the stressor called “Excessive work” is a dominant source of stress (p=0.004). In assessing psychophysiological work-related strains, a statistically significant difference was found in the category “Pressure at work” (p=0.001) and “Stress caused by low workload” (p=0.004). In the evaluation of the burnout syndrome, 31.7% (N=40) of all participants was found without syndrome. Initial burnout was found in 42.1% (N= 53) of all participants, and 26.2% (N=33) of all participants showed a high degree of burnout. The results indicate the necessity of developing systematic programs for the prevention of professional stress with appropriate measures to improve working conditions in certain institutions.
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Publication date:
12.4.2021.
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