A Multicentre Study of Psychological Variables and the Prevalence of Burnout among Primary Health Care Nurses
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Ortega-Campos, Elena; Cañadas De La Fuente, Guillermo Arturo; Albendín García, Luis; Gómez Urquiza, Jose Luis; Monsalve-Reyes, Carolina S.; Fuente Solana, Emilia I. De LaEditorial
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Burnout Anxiety Nursing Depressions Occupational Health Public health service
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2019-09-04Referencia bibliográfica
Ortega-Campos, E., Albendín-García, L., Gómez-Urquiza, J. L., Monsalve-Reyes, C., & de la Fuente-Solana, E. I. (2019). A Multicentre Study of Psychological Variables and the Prevalence of Burnout among Primary Health Care Nurses. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(18), 3242.
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Funding for this study was provided by the Andalusian Government Excellence Project (P11HUM-7771)Abstract
Nurses in primary health care (PHC) have multiple responsibilities but must often work with
limited resources. The study’s aim was to estimate burnout levels among PHC nurses. A Quantitative,
observational, cross-sectional, multicentre study of 338 nurses working in PHC in the Andalusian
Public Health Service (Spain) is presented. A total of 40.24% of the nurses studied had high levels of
burnout. The dimensions of emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation were significantly associated
with anxiety, depression, neuroticism, on-call duty and seniority-profession and inversely related to
agreeableness. In addition, depersonalisation was significantly associated with gender, and emotional
exhaustion correlated inversely with age. Personal achievement was inversely associated with anxiety
and depression and positively correlated with agreeableness, extraversion and responsibility. There
is a high prevalence of burnout among nurses in PHC. Those most likely to suffer burnout syndrome
are relatively young, suffer from anxiety and depression and present high scores for neuroticism and
low ones for agreeableness, responsibility and extraversion.