Prevalence of burnout among nurses working at a selected psychiatric hospital in Western Cape
Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Background: Research studies allude to the escalation of work related stress, which leads to burnout among mental health nurses, internationally.Mental health nursing is stressful because it is a helping profession that involves close interpersonal working relationships and the burden of providing nursing care to mental health care users (MHCUs) with complex emotional demands.These stressful working conditions render mental health nurses susceptible to burnout.Globally, health care services share a concern about the effects of burnout on nurses.Although burnout is a personal experience for the nurses, the results impact negatively on the quality of care delivered to MHCUs, while increasing the cost of care of the hospitals, which employ these mental health nurses. Aim and objectives:The aim of this study was to investigate the phenomenon of burnout in mental health nurses working at a selected psychiatric hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa.The objectives of this study were: to determine the prevalence of burnout among mental health nurses; and, to determine the correlation between the emotional exhaustion and the depersonalisation domains, depersonalisation and the lack of personal accomplishment domains, and the lack of personal accomplishment and emotional exhaustion domains.Method: A descriptive, survey design, using simple random sampling was used to select 198 nurses employed at a psychiatric hospital in Western Cape, South Africa.The Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS), which is a 22 item, Likert type, structured questionnaire was used to collect the data with a response rate was 84 %( n= 167).The data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 24.Findings: The results of this study revealed that the respondents experienced low emotional exhaustion, low depersonalisation, and a high lack of personal accomplishment, which concluded that they did not suffer from burnout.In addition, there was a positive correlation between the emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation domains, a negative correlation between the emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment and a negative correlation between depersonalisation and personal accomplishment.http://etd.uwc.ac.za obstacles that I faced during my studies; indeed, everything is possible with God.Special thanks to my supervisor, Doctor Penelope Martin, for
Author: Anathi Faith Tununu
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2896355409