Burnout in emergency department nurses versus physicians during covid-19 crisis

Abstract

Considering that the covid-19 disease has led to the death and disability of many people around the world from 2019 until now, and it continues to this day, and the medical staff are providing services around the clock, there is a possibility of mental exhaustion due to the pandemic. The present is not far from the expected and in the studies conducted so far, no comparison has been made between doctors and nurses in the emergency department in terms of the incidence of mental burnout, and no similar study has been found, and in this study, the mental burnout of doctors and nurses in the emergency department during the Corona crisis has been compared. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 67 doctors and nurses working in the Emergency Department of Imam Reza Hospital (AS) of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, who were on duty during the Corona crisis, were included in the study. The instrument used was the standard Copenhagen psychological burnout questionnaire. After coordinating with the respected officials of the emergency department and obtaining their consent, the questionnaire was distributed among the respected doctors and nurses of the emergency department. . Findings: In terms of gender distribution, 62.2% of the subjects studied in the group of doctors and 23.3% of the subjects studied in the group of nurses were men. A statistically significant difference was observed in terms of gender distribution between the two study groups (P = 0.001). The average age of the subjects studied in both groups of patients and nurses was 32 years. The median work experience of doctors working in the emergency department was 2 years and the median work experience of nurses working in the emergency department was 6 years, and a statistically significant difference in terms of work experience was observed between the two study groups (P = 0.001). The average score of the individual burnout subscale in the studied group of doctors was 53.82, and in the studied group of nurses, it was 58.48. No statistically significant difference was observed in terms of personal burnout between the two groups of doctors and nurses of the emergency department (P = 0.347). No statistically significant difference was observed in terms of burnout related to work between the two groups of doctors and nurses of the emergency department (P = 0.066). No statistically significant difference was observed in terms of burnout related to patients between the two groups of doctors and nurses of the emergency department. P = 0.696). No statistically significant difference was observed in terms of overall burnout between the two groups of doctors and nurses of the emergency department (P = 0.108).