Assessment of the burnout level in health care worker during covd 19

Jawad, M. K.; Al-Reda, D. A. A. R. A.; Armeah, W. A.; Abdulhussein, A. J.

Background: Health care workers are considered the first and real repelling line in the face of the COVID19 pandemic, and therefore they have an increased workload, and stress. Understanding risk for burnout is critical to supporting health workers and maintaining the quality of healthcare during the pandemic. Methods: A cross-sectional study design could be used to assessment the level of burnout during COVID 19. Included 1000 samples as a healthcare worker involved in the study by used of convenience sampling technic, The study has been carried out in Iraqi, conducted throughout the period of April 15th, to July 19th, 2020. A self-administered questionnaire and Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Service Survey were used to collect data. Results: Overall, burnout were high level among 59.9 % of the participants in the study. High workload and intention to leave were associated with burnout at statistically significant (P<0.05), and high significant relationship between demographic characteristics (age, gender, level of education, job title, work place ) and level of burnout (P<0.05). Conclusions: The high level of burnout identified among health workers is mainly related to the high workload and psychological stress fronting them during COVID 19, as well as the lack of personal equipment necessary to protect themselves from this epidemic.