Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Vocational Studies for the Education of Preschool Teachers and Sports Trainers, Subotica, Serbia.
Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2022 Apr;26(7):2639-2645. doi: 10.26355/eurrev_202204_28502.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has increased occupational stress for all healthcare providers, making job burnout one of the most common and largely unrecognized mental health issues among healthcare professionals. Besides physicians and nurses, pharmacy practitioners were "front-line" healthcare professionals with a critical and unique role in the public health crisis. Considering this, the aim of this study was to examine distress levels and the prevalence of job burnout among Serbian pharmacy practitioners in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This cross-sectional online study was conducted in April and May of 2020. A total of 176 pharmacy practitioners anonymously and voluntarily completed the two-section questionnaire, consisting of Copenhagen burnout inventory, CBI and 4DSQ Distress subscale. The two-section questionnaire was distributed online, among various social-media groups of pharmacy practitioners, as well as by personal contacts following the "snowball" sampling method.
Results revealed moderately high burnout scores in our sample. The majority of the participants showed signs of personal-related job burnout, followed by work-related and client-related burnout. A strongly elevated distress level was obtained in almost two-thirds of study respondents. In addition, a significant and high correlation of all CBI subscales with distress was found, as well as medium correlations with sleep duration shortening as a mediator between distress and job burnout.
Results of our study showed that job burnout significantly increased among pharmacy practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, we discovered that stress has an indirect impact on study participants' burnout via insufficient sleep.
当前的 COVID-19 大流行增加了所有医疗保健提供者的职业压力，使工作倦怠成为医疗保健专业人员中最常见且在很大程度上未被认识到的心理健康问题之一。除了医生和护士，药剂师也是“一线”医疗保健专业人员，在公共卫生危机中具有关键且独特的作用。有鉴于此，本研究旨在调查塞尔维亚药剂师在 COVID-19 大流行期间的困扰水平和工作倦怠发生率。
这是一项横断面在线研究，于 2020 年 4 月和 5 月进行。共有 176 名药剂师匿名自愿填写了两节问卷，包括哥本哈根倦怠量表（CBI）和 4DSQ 痛苦量表。两节问卷通过在线分发给各种药剂师社交媒体群组，以及通过“滚雪球”抽样法联系个人。
结果显示我们的样本中存在中度高的倦怠得分。大多数参与者表现出与个人相关的工作倦怠迹象，其次是与工作和客户相关的倦怠。近三分之二的研究受访者表现出明显的高度困扰。此外，还发现 CBI 所有分量表与痛苦之间存在显著的高度相关性，以及与睡眠时间缩短的中等相关性，睡眠时间缩短作为痛苦和工作倦怠之间的中介因素。
我们的研究结果表明，COVID-19 大流行期间，药剂师的工作倦怠显著增加。此外，我们发现压力通过睡眠不足对研究参与者的倦怠产生间接影响。
