Gülşen Mustafa, Ertuğrul Bekir, Taşkın Gülşen, Aytar Ayça, Genç Yasemin Kavuncubaşı
Vocational School of Health Services, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey.
Work. 2024;79(4):1753-1762. doi: 10.3233/WOR-230203.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all health professionals worldwide. This has also influenced their working lives, affecting burnout and work engagement.
This study aims to investigate the relationship between burnout and work engagement among nurses and physiotherapists during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This cross-sectional study was conducted with total 509 nurses and physiotherapists who were working at any of the private, public, or university hospitals from two large and one small cities. A Personal Introduction Form, the Maslach Burnout Scale, and the Work Engagement Scale were used in the study. Frequency, percentage, mean, and Pearson correlation analysis were used for statistical analysis. Necessary ethical approvals were taken for the research.
There was a significant, moderate, negative relationship between the average scores of the nurses on the vigor and devotion dimensions and the Work Engagement Scale and their average scores on emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment, depersonalization dimensions and their average score on the Maslach Burnout Scale (p < 0.05). There was a significant, moderate, negative relationship between the scores of the physiotherapists on the Work Engagement Scale and its dimensions and their average scores on the Maslach Burnout Scale and its dimensions (p < 0.05).
In our study, it was found that the burnout levels of nurses and physiotherapists had an effect on their work engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. During and after the COVID-19 process, managers should take measures to reduce the burnout levels of health professionals and increase their level of work engagement.
新冠疫情影响了全球所有医疗专业人员。这也对他们的工作生活产生了影响，进而影响职业倦怠和工作投入度。
本研究旨在调查新冠疫情期间护士和物理治疗师职业倦怠与工作投入之间的关系。
本横断面研究共纳入了来自两个大城市和一个小城市的私立、公立或大学医院的509名护士和物理治疗师。研究使用了个人信息表、马氏职业倦怠量表和工作投入量表。采用频率、百分比、均值和皮尔逊相关分析进行统计分析。该研究已获得必要的伦理批准。
护士在活力和奉献维度上的平均得分与工作投入量表得分，以及他们在情感耗竭、个人成就感、去个性化维度上的平均得分与马氏职业倦怠量表平均得分之间存在显著、中等程度的负相关关系（p<0.05）。物理治疗师在工作投入量表及其维度上的得分与他们在马氏职业倦怠量表及其维度上的平均得分之间存在显著、中等程度的负相关关系（p<0.05）。
在我们的研究中，发现护士和物理治疗师的职业倦怠水平在新冠疫情期间对其工作投入产生了影响。在新冠疫情期间及之后，管理者应采取措施降低医疗专业人员的职业倦怠水平，提高他们的工作投入程度。
