title: [An investigation on job burnout of medical personnel in a top three hospital].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate job burnout status of medical Personnel in a top three hospitals, in order to provide basic data for intervention of the hospital management.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 549 doctors and nurses were assessed by Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Service Survey (MBI-HSS). SPSS 19.0 software package was applied to data description and analysis, including univariate analysis and orderly classification Logistic regression analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The rate of high job burnout of doctors and nurses are 36.3% and 42.8% respectively. Female subjects got higher scores (29.4±13.5) on emotional exhaustion than male subjects (26.2±12.8) compared with.Doctors got lower scores (28.2±15.9) on emotional exhaustion and higher scores (31.4±9.3) on personal accomplishment than nurses.Compared with subjects with higher professional title, young subjects with primary professional title got lower scores on personal accomplishment.Subjects with 11-20 years working age got the highest scores on depersonalization.Among all the test departments, medical personnel of emergency department got the highest scores (31.9±12.6) on emotional exhaustion,while the lowest scores (28.1±8.0) on personal accomplishment. According to the results of orderly classification Logistic regression analysis, age, job type,professional qualifications and clinical departments type entered the regression model.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Physical resources and emotional resources of medical personnel are overdraft so that they got some high degree of job burnout.Much more attention should be paid to professional mental health of nurses,and personnel who at low age,got low professional titles.Positive measures should be provided, including management mechanism,organizational culture, occupational protection and psychological intervention.
authors: Injury Prevention Research Center in Medical College of Shantou University, Shantou 515041, China.
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mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009726:Nurses; D010820:Physicians; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires