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Influence Of Personal Functioning And Behaviour Type On Burnout Among Public Health Workers
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1.3 Purpose of Study
The general aim is to examine if personal functioning and behavior type
will influence burnout among public health workers.
While the specific aim of the work is as follows:
To examine, if personal functioning will lead to burnout among public health workers.
To examine; if behavior type would lead to burnout among public health workers.
To determine if personal functioning and behavior type can jointly lead to burnout.
1.4 Significance of the Study
Burnout is common among public health care workers. Characteristics of
the health care environment, including time pressure, lack of control
over work processes, role conflict, and poor relationships between
groups and with leadership, combine with personal predisposing factors
and the emotional intensity of clinical work to put clinicians at high
risk, until recently estimates for the prevalence of burnout ranged from
10%-70% among nurses and 30% - 50% among physicians, nurse
practitioners, and physician assistants. In late 2015, a study conducted
by the Mayo Clinic, in partnership with the American Medical
Association, found that more than half of American physicians now have
at least one sign of burnout, a 9% increase from the group’s prior
results in a study conducted 3 years earlier. Burnout is viewed as a
threat to patients safety because depersonalization is presumed to
result in poorer interactions with patients.
Clinicians
with burnout are more likely to subjectively rate patient safety lower
in their organizations and to admit to having made mistakes or delivered
substandard care at work. Thus a number of influential organizations,
including the American Medical Association and the Mayo Clinic, have
highlighted burnout as a priority. This Annual perspective summarizes
studies published in 2015, with a particular focus on the relationship
between burnout and patient safety and interventions, and probable
causes and victims burnout among clinicians. Specially the significance
of this study will be as follows:
The findings of this study
will be of importance to employees during selection and placement, so
as to place and hire applicants whose behavior type are well matched to
the available job in order to avoid job burnout; which in turn leads to
low productivity and high worker turn over.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study investigated influence of Personal functioning and Behavior type on burnout among public health workersâ€. Two hundred and thirty-one (231) health workers comprising of Hundred and one (101) males (44.5%) and Hundred and twenty-six (126) females (55.5%) were selected from hospitals in Uyo metropolis. Participants were selected using convenient sampling technique. Their age ranged between 18 and 62 years with a mean age of 38 years. Maslach Burnout Inventory -General survey (MBI-GS ... Continue reading---
