Analysis of the job burnout and occupational instability factors among full-time personnel of infection managementt in 29 hospitals

ObjectiveTo know the job burnout and factors of occupational instability among full-time personnel of infection management, and explore the relationship between job burnout and the factors of occupational instability.

MethodsThe job burnout and occupational instability factors in 52 full-time staff of nosocomial infection management from 29 secondary and tertiary hospitals in Xianyang were investigated using questionnaires according to the stratified random sampling method.

ResultsA total of 52 questionnaires were issued, 46 of which were valid, and the effective recovery rate was 88.46%.The incidence rate of the job burnout in full-time staff of nosocomial infection management was 95.65%, which included the mild job burnout for 34.78%, moderate job burnout for 47.83% and severe job burnout for 13.04%.The proportions of the dimensionalities over critical value in emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and accomplishment reducing were 10.87%, 52.17% and 89.13%, respectively.With the dimension of job burnout increasing, the incidence rates of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization exceeding critical value gradually increased(P < 0.01).The top 3 of career instability factors were large work pressure(91.30%), lacking enough attention of leaders(78.26%) and low salary(63.04%).Rank correlation analysis showed that the nosocomial infection interest was negatively correlated with emotional exhaustion(P < 0.05), and the lacking enough attention of leaders was positively correlated with accomplishment reducing(P < 0.05).The multiple linear regression analysis showed that the effect of nosocomial infection management interest on the emotional exhaustion was the most(β=-0.450, P < 0.01), and the effect of lacking enough attention of leaders on accomplishment reducing and job burnout was the most(β=0.273, -0.291, P < 0.10 and P=0.05).

ConclusionsThe incidence rate of job burnout among full-time staff in nosocomial infection management in Xianyang is high, and the occurrence of job burnout is related to large work pressure and lacking enough attention of leaders.