The prevalence of working stress and emotional burnout among health workers

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Introduction. In the course of their occupational activities, health workers experience a huge burden, which often leads to the development of stress, emotional burnout, and changes in health status.

Goal — to study the prevalence of working stress and the degree of emotional burnout in health workers with different levels of work stress.

Material and methods. Two hundred ten health workers of outpatient polyclinic institutions of Kazan were examined using the questionnaire “RAMIS” (Workplace and stress) and the questionnaire of emotional burnout by K.Maslach (adapted by N.E. Vodopyanova).

Results. There was recorded an increased level of stress among health workers in all age groups (31.6% at a young age, 35% on average, 42.4% in the elderly). Low level of social support (54.2%) and low level of control (43.1%) are the leading factors in the structure of working stress among health workers of outpatient clinics. A high degree of emotional burnout is equally recorded in all the age groups studied (35.9% at a young age, 40% on average, 42.3% in the elderly). A reliable relationship between working stress and emotional burnout has been determined.

Limitations. Health workers in hospitals and private medical clinics were not included, as well as those who did not give informed consent to participate in this study.

Conclusion. A high level of working stress was recorded in each age group studied, the relationship between age and the level of work stress was not revealed. Also, the burnout syndrome was detected in all age groups and had no connection with age. Health workers with a high level of stress were found to be much more likely to suffer from emotional burnout than people with low working stress.

Compliance with ethical standards. The study passed an ethical examination and was approved by the local ethics committee of the Kazan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia. (Minutes of the meeting № 1 dated 02.03.2021).

Contribution:
Sibgatullin I.Ya. — collection and processing of materials, writing and formatting of the text;
Badamshina G.G. — research concept and design, editing;
Fatkhutdinova L.M. — research concept, editing.
All authors are responsible for the integrity of all parts of the manuscript and approval of the manuscript final version.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Acknowledgement. The study was carried out at the expense of grant No. 2/22-9 dated 2.08.2022 of the Kazan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, allocated for research within the framework of the University Development Program.

Received: October 26, 2023 / Accepted: November 15, 2023 / Published: December 8, 2023

About the authors

Iskander Y. Sibgatullin

Kazan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Author for correspondence.
Email: kgmua@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2351-658X

Assistant of the Department of Hygiene, Occupational Medicine, Kazan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Kazan, 420012, Russian Federation.

e-mail: kgmua@mail.ru

Russian Federation

Lilia M. Fatkhutdinova

Kazan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9506-563X

Доктор медицинских наук, профессор, заведующий кафедрой гигиены, медицины труда. ФГБОУ ВО "Казанский государственный медицинский университет" Министерства здравоохранения РФ, 420012, Казань, Россия

Russian Federation

Gulnara G. Badamshina

Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Republic of Tatarstan (Tatarstan)

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0088-6422

Доктор медицинских наук, доцент кафедры гигиены, медицины труда. ФГБОУ ВО "Казанский государственный медицинский университет" Министерства здравоохранения РФ, 420012, Казань, Россия

Russian Federation

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