Prevalence and Associated Factors of Burnout Risk among Emergency Nurses during COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Introduction: The Emergency Department (ED) nurses are the first health care professionals to treat patients infected during COVID-19 pandemic. The workload of ED nurses is quite heavy because generally patients who are rushed to the ED are emergency patients who need to get health services as quickly and accurately as possible. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and associated factors of burnout risk among Emergency Nurses during COVID-19 pandemic in Bali.
 Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on the risk of burnout among emergency nurses in Bali. This research was conducted in June 2021 involving 85 emergency nurses who are members of the Indonesian emergency and disaster nurse association in Bali. The instrument used to identify the nurses’ burnout is the Maslach Burnout Inventory Indonesian version. Statistical analysis was carried out using the Spearman Rank test with a level of significance (α<0.05).
 Results: The ED nurses burnouts during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bali have average burnout ranged from 9.8 to 34.58. Most of the respondents (72.9%) were in mild emotional exhaustion, 69.4% experienced moderate depersonalization and 45.9% had low personal accomplishment. Hospital resource have co-morbidities and previous experience of treating patients with infectious diseases statistically correlated with ED nurses burnouts.

Burnout among Emergency Nurses during COVID-19 Pandemic at Hail Governmental Hospitals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

“…The results of the current study revealed that; there was no significant statistical relationship between the socio-demographic characteristics of the emergency nurses and the mean scores of CBI (P values > 0.05 for all). This finding goes in the same line with previous studies, which concluded that there was no association between burnout and socio-demographic factors such as age, gender, education level, marital status, and work position ( 15 , 23 ). However, the results revealed that all burnout mean scores in all sub-dimensions of CBI were higher in old ages, males, non-Saudi, divorced, with lower educational levels, nursing technicians, and low years of experience.…”

“…In addition, another study stated that more than half of the respondents had personal burnout, and more than one-third had work-related and client-related burnout ( 20 ). However, in other study the researcher found that the study subjects had lower burnout means that ranged from 9.8 to 34.58 ( 15 ).…”

“…The emergency nurses are the first health care professionals to treat patients infected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The workload of emergency nurses is quite heavy because, generally, patients who are rushed to the emergency departments are emergency patients who need to get health services as quickly and accurately as possible ( 15 ). This study aimed to assess the level of burnout among emergency nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic at Hail Governmental Hospitals in Saudi Arabia.…”

Coping with COVID-19: Strategies of Frontline Nurses

“…Concentrating on how coping mechanisms, both problem-and emotion-focused, were shown to effectively treat psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic [12], [13].…”

Analysis of Workload, Fatigue, and Musculoskeletal Complaints among Associate Nurses at Bangli General Hospital

“…has revealed that high demands of workload had led to the excessive physical and mental work, resulting in nurses' fatigue [4]- [6]. In addition, the large number of complaints and demands from the patient's family also increase the nurses' workload [7], as well as impacted the nurses fatigue.…”