Burnout in COVID-19 era - a literature review

Leśniewska Magdalena, Kozioł Ilona, Budzyńska Julia, Milanowska Joanna. Burnout in COVID-19 era - a literature review. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2021;11(8):236-246. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.08.024 https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2021.11.08.024 https://zenodo.org/record/5224231 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2021; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.08.2021. Revised: 15.08.2021. Accepted: 19.08.2021. Burnout in COVID-19 era - a literature review Magdalena Leśniewska1, Ilona Kozioł1, Julia Budzyńska1, Joanna Milanowska2 Magdalena Leśniewska 1, ORCID: 0000-0001-8519-7655, e-mail: magdalenagim16@gmail.com Ilona Kozioł 1,ORCID: 0000-0003-3154-5356 e-mail: ilona.koziol9@gmail.com Julia Budzyńska 1, ORCID:0000-0002-2737-1069, e-mail: julciab42@gmail.com dr n. o zdr. Joanna Milanowska2, ORCID:0000-0001-9741-1583, e-mail: joannamilanowska@umlub.pl Student Scientific Circle on Chair and Department of Applied Psychology, Medical University of Lublin Chair and Department of Applied Psychology, Medical University of Lublin Abstract BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic brought changes to daily life of many people. One of those affected by the global pandemic arena was work life. One of the results is burnout due to new challenges and stress associated with them. The most exposed occupational group were healthcare workers as the frontline in the fight against the virus, but not only this group could experience burnout due to the pandemic. AIM OF THE STUDY: The aim of this study was to review the most recent available literature on burnout associated with COVID-19. PubMed, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar databases were reviewed. The Phrase "burnout and covid" was used to search the database. Search criteria were: all open access, 2020 and 2021, psychology and English. After Screening titles and abstracts 21 articles were analyzed in detail. RESULTS: Many studies have shown that healthcare workers experienced burnout. The most vulnerable group were young, female nurses working with COVID-19 patients. Burnout was also observed among parents, who started working remotely from home or who had to commute to their workplace despite the pandemic. Remote schooling also contributed to burnout among students and teachers. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: To reduce the possibility of experiencing burnout there are several actions that could be taken. First of all a positive attitude and task oriented actions are helpful in coping in new, stressful situations. Other solutions are social support and psychotherapy. Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; burnout