1. Prevalence of Burnout Syndrome in Emergency Nurses: A Meta-Analysis
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Emilia I. De la Fuente-Solana, José Luis Gómez-Urquiza, Luis Albendín-García, Elena Ortega-Campos, Cristina Vargas-Pecino, and Guillermo A. Cañadas-De la Fuente
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Adult ,Male ,Attitude of Health Personnel ,health care facilities, manpower, and services ,education ,MEDLINE ,PsycINFO ,CINAHL ,Burnout ,Emergency Nursing ,Nursing Staff, Hospital ,Critical Care Nursing ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Depersonalization ,Prevalence ,Medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Emotional exhaustion ,Burnout, Professional ,030504 nursing ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,Meta-analysis ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,0305 other medical science ,business ,psychological phenomena and processes ,Stress, Psychological ,Clinical psychology ,Emergency nursing - Abstract
Objective To determine the prevalence of burnout (based on the Maslach Burnout Inventory on the 3 dimensions of high Emotional Exhaustion, high Depersonalization, and low Personal Accomplishment) among emergency nurses. Method A search of the terms "emergency AND nurs* AND burnout" was conducted using the following databases: CINAHL, Cochrane, CUIDEN, IBECS, LILACS, PubMed, ProQuest, PsycINFO, SciELO, and Scopus. Results Thirteen studies were included for the Maslach Burnout Inventory subscales of Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization and 11 studies for the subscale of low Personal Accomplishment. The total sample of nurses was 1566. The estimated prevalence of each subscale was 31% (95% CI, 20-44) for Emotional Exhaustion, 36% (95% CI, 23-51) for Depersonalization, and 29% (95% CI, 15-44) for low Personal Accomplishment. Conclusions The prevalence of burnout syndrome in emergency nurses is high; about 30% of the sample was affected with at least 1 of the 3 Maslach Burnout Inventory subscales. Working conditions and personal factors should be taken into account when assessing burnout risk profiles of emergency nurses.
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- 2017