Shokrpour Nasrin, Bazrafkan Leila, Talebi Marzieh
Department of English, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Department of Medical Education, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2021 Jan 28;10:27. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_239_20. eCollection 2021.
Health-care workers in community service professions are the formerly candidate for occupation burnout. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between empowerment and job burnout among auxiliary health workers (behvarzan) at Fasa University of Medical Sciences.
In this descriptive-analytical study, 120 auxiliary health workers were enrolled using the census. Spritzer's psychological empowerment and Maslach burnout inventory questionnaires were used to collect the data. Then, they were analyzed through the SPSS software, using descriptive analytical tests.
The findings of this study revealed that the auxiliary health workers' empowerment was in the range of 22-75 with a mean ± standard deviation [SD] of 48.5 ± 9.71, which is in a fairly high level considering the highest score (75) in this scale. Moreover, with respect to burnout (mean ± SD of 58.03 ± 18.64), 36 participants (30%) had low level of burnout, 69 subjects (57.5%) were at the intermediate level, and 15 (12.5%) suffered high levels of job burnout. According to the results of this study, there were a high correlation and negative relationship ( = 0.406, > 0.001) between psychological empowerment and job burnout among the auxiliary health workers. On the other hand, all empowerment components (competence, autonomy or independence, effectiveness, and trust) had a reverse and significant association with burnout.
Based on the results of this study, the auxiliary health workers (behvarzan) were in a good range of empowerment; also, the dimensions of empowerment were correlated with job burnout in Fasa university-affiliated hospitals' health workers. On the other hand, demographic features had no association with these two factors. It is suggested that health authorities should take measures to empower the workers and identify and remove the effects of the various dimensions of job burnout among the health workers in these hospitals.
社区服务行业的医护人员是职业倦怠的潜在候选人群。本研究旨在调查设拉子医科大学辅助医护人员（behvarzan）的赋能与职业倦怠之间的关系。
在这项描述性分析研究中，采用普查法招募了120名辅助医护人员。使用施普雷泽的心理赋能问卷和马氏职业倦怠量表收集数据。然后，通过SPSS软件进行分析，采用描述性分析测试。
本研究结果显示，辅助医护人员的赋能得分在22 - 75之间，平均±标准差[SD]为48.5±9.71，考虑到该量表的最高分（75），这处于相当高的水平。此外，关于职业倦怠（平均±SD为58.03±18.64），36名参与者（30%）职业倦怠水平较低，69名受试者（57.5%）处于中等水平，15名（12.5%）遭受高水平的职业倦怠。根据本研究结果，辅助医护人员的心理赋能与职业倦怠之间存在高度相关性和负相关关系（= 0.406，> 0.001）。另一方面，所有赋能成分（能力、自主性或独立性、效能感和信任）与职业倦怠呈反向且显著相关。
基于本研究结果，辅助医护人员（behvarzan）的赋能处于良好范围；此外，赋能维度与设拉子大学附属医院医护人员的职业倦怠相关。另一方面，人口统计学特征与这两个因素无关。建议卫生当局采取措施增强医护人员的能力，并识别和消除这些医院医护人员职业倦怠各维度的影响。
