The Level of Psychological Burnout among Health Sector Workers -Field Study at the Level of Health Institutions in the State of Guelma-

Abstract

The current study aimed to try to reveal the levels of total psychological burnout among health workers, as well as the level of psychological burnout in its three dimensions (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, dehumanization, low sense of achievement), in addition to trying to know some relationships and some differences between psychological burnout and some personal and professional variables, after confirming the validity and reliability of the psychological burnout scale of researcher Christina Maslach (MBI), and modified for the Algerian environment by researcher Nasraoui Sabah, where the study sample included (308) workers from various specialties in health institutions in the state of Guelma. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive approach was relied upon, and the results showed that the scale was characterized by high validity and reliability, in addition to the fact that health sector workers suffer from an average level of total psychological burnout, and from average emotional dullness, in addition to high emotional exhaustion and lack of achievement, while the results showed no correlation between the variable of psychological burnout and each of the variables of age and social status. As for the correlational relationships, the results led to the presence of a positive correlation between the variable of psychological burnout and the nature of work. There is also a significant correlation between burnout and the gender variable, and the results showed a relationship between each of the emotional exhaustion dimension and each of the work nature and gender variables, in addition to the emotional numbness dimension and each of the social status, gender and age variables, as well as between the lack of achievement dimension and each of the social status and age variables. Finally, regarding the differences, the study results showed that there were no statistically significant differences in burnout and some variables (gender, night shifts, desire for shifts, senior positions and work in Covid-19 interests), in addition to the absence of statistically significant differences in burnout with the variables (age, years of experience, nature of the institution, nature of work), and the results showed that there were statistically significant differences at the significance level of 0.05 for burnout among health sector workers attributed to the variable of the nature of the profession.