International Journal of Neuro & Psychological Disorders

PREVALENCE OF BURNOUT AMONG HOME HEALTH CARE STAFF IN SAUDI ARABIA

Hassan Yahya Al Zahrani*

moada_a1@hotmail.com

Burnout; MBI-HSS, health care; staff; Saudi Arabia.

Burnout, as a type of prolonged response to chronic job-related stressors, has potentially very serious consequences for workers, their client, and the larger institutions in which they interact. Burnout can lead to deterioration in the quality of care or services provided by the staff. It appears to be a factor in job turnover, absenteeism and low. To determine the prevalence of burnout among home health care staff and to identify the risk factors of burnout. This is a cross sectional descriptive study conducted at all home health care centers (HHCCs) which belong to Military hospitals, National Guard hospital in Riyadh, King Abdul Aziz University hospital in Jeddah and King Fahad hospital in Madina. All home health care staff who were working and present at the time of study in HHCCs at the above mentioned study areas were invited for the study. Supervisor of home health care staff had been personally informed about the aims of this study and had been asked to distribute a questionnaire among the staff and collect them after completion. The data was collected through self-administered questionnaire consists of two parts; socio-demographic with job characteristics and MBI-HSS questionnaire. The response rate of returned questionnaires from all hospitals was 87%. The overall result showed that the prevalence of burn out among home health care staff was zero percent. However 55% of the sample showed high exhaustion level (58% of non Saudi staff with P-value =0.018), 85% showed high level of depersonalization (97% of Saudi staff with P-value =0.044) and 96% showed high level of personal accomplishment (98% were practicing recreational activity P-value=0.027). In all hospitals involved in this study, the overall prevalence of burnout among home health care staff was zero percent. However, the emotional exhaustion was higher among non Saudi home health care staff (58%).while the depersonalization was higher among Saudi staff (97%).The personal accomplishment surprisingly was very high among home health care staff 96% (97% among whom practicing recreational activities).