OCCUPATIONAL BURNOUT AMONG NURSES WORKING IN MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTERS IN EL BEHEIRA GOVERNORATE

Abstract: Nurses who are working in maternal and child health care setting suffer from excessive load that makes them more liable for occupational burnout because their work involves many preventive and curative health services that are provided to both women and under-five children. The study aimed to: assess the level of occupational burnout among nurses working in Maternal and Child Health centers (MCH) in El Beheira Governorate. Design: a descriptive study was utilized to meet the aim of this study. Setting: The study was conducted in 9 MCH centers within 5 directorates out of 16 directorates present in El Beheira Governorate including Damanhour, Kafer El dawar, Abo Elmatamer, Etay Elbarod and Shobarqet directorates. These directorates have the greatest number of nurses within MCH centers. Subjects: composed of 300 nursing staff who are working at previously mentioned setting. Tools: two tools were used for data collection; Nurses’ characteristics self –administrated sheet and The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Results: around two third of the studied nurses had high level of emotional exhaustion, and the majority of them had high level of high depersonalization and personal accomplishment. Moreover, there was a statistically significant negative correlation between emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment domain and positive correlation between emotional exhaustion and depersonalization. On the other hand, there was no statistically significant correlation between personal accomplishment and depersonalization. Conclusion: based on the results of the present study it can be concluded that, although the current study subjects had high level of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, they still had high level of personal accomplishment. Moreover, emotional exhaustion was negatively correlated with personal accomplishment and positively correlated with depersonalization. On the other hand, there was no statistically significant correlation between personal accomplishment and depersonalization. Recommendation: frequent workshops about effective coping strategies to be used during time of stress need to be implemented for nurses to protect against occurrence of burnout. Keywords: nursing staff, occupational burnout, maternal and child health center. Title: OCCUPATIONAL BURNOUT AMONG NURSES WORKING IN MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTERS IN EL BEHEIRA GOVERNORATE Author: Mona Ali. S, Mariam Soliman H., Amal Awad M., Emad Fayek R. International Journal of Novel Research in Healthcare and Nursing ISSN 2394-7330 Vol. 9, Issue 2, May 2022 - August 2022 Page No: 167-186 Novelty Journals Website: www.noveltyjournals.com Published Date: 02-July-2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6790438 Paper Download Link (Source) https://www.noveltyjournals.com/upload/paper/OCCUPATIONAL%20BURNOUT-02072022-6.pdfInternational Journal of Novel Research in Healthcare and Nursing, ISSN 2394-7330, Novelty Journals, Website: www.noveltyjournals.co