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Burnout and associated factors among nurses working in public hospitals of Harari region and Dire Dawa administration, eastern Ethiopia. A cross sectional study

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  • Deribe Bekele Dechasa
  • Teshager Worku
  • Negga Baraki
  • Bedasa Taye Merga
  • Henock Asfaw

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Background: Burnout is a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, low personal accomplishment and depersonalization experienced by a health professional and it is more common in nurses due to high workload and job stress that is mostly caused by working proximity to patients and taking care of them. Burnout compromises the provision of quality health care. Despite this, there is no information in Ethiopia on burnout among nurses in study area. Objectives: To determine the magnitude of burnout and associated factors among nurses working in public hospitals of Harari regional state and Dire Dawa administration, eastern Ethiopia, February 1–29, 2020. Methods: Institutional based quantitative cross-sectional study was employed from February 1–29 among 412 randomly selected nurses who have been working in hospitals for the last 6 months. Simple random sampling method was employed and data was collected by self-administered, standardized, reliable and valid, questionnaire (Maslachs Burnout Inventory- Human Services Survey). Data was entered into EpiData Version 3.1 and exported to statistical package for social science version 20 for analysis. All covariate with P-value less than 0.25 in bivariable analysis were candidate for multivariable analysis. Level of statistical significance was declared at p-value

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  • Deribe Bekele Dechasa & Teshager Worku & Negga Baraki & Bedasa Taye Merga & Henock Asfaw, 2021. "Burnout and associated factors among nurses working in public hospitals of Harari region and Dire Dawa administration, eastern Ethiopia. A cross sectional study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(10), pages 1-15, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0258224
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0258224
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