Psychological burnout among doctors working at Al Bayda Medical Center and its relationship to some variables

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the level of burnout among doctors at Al-Bayda Teaching Hospital according to some demographic variables, the study sample consisted of (203) doctors from the employees of Al-Bayda Teaching Hospital, and the sample was selected using the proportional stratified sample, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the Maslash scale of psychological burnout was used (Jackson et Maslash): This measurement was designed by Maslash and Jackson to renew the degrees of burnout in workers in the health sector (doctors, nurses) and public aid professions (teachers, managers, police, etc.). etc.), and the psychometric properties (truthfulness - stability) of the tool used in the study were extracted, and to analyze the objectives of the study, the statistical package for psychological sciences (SPSS) was used and the study reached the following results:

- There are statistically significant differences between the average scores of the study sample members on the scale of psychological burnout in its various dimensions and the hypothetical average of the scale itself and its dimensions, where the arithmetic average of the scores of the sample members on the scale of burnout as a whole (60.85), which is greater than the hypothetical average of the scale as a whole of (77), which indicates that the sample members do not suffer from burnout and this value was a function at the level of significance (0.01).

- There were no statistically significant differences in the scale of psychological burnout in its dimensions among the doctors working at Al-Bayda Teaching Hospital according to the gender variable (male-female).

- There were no statistically significant differences in the scale of burnout in its dimensions among doctors working at Al-Bayda Teaching Hospital according to the variable of specialization (internal medicine - ear, nose and throat - anesthesia - children - first aid - women - radiology - skin - general surgery - eyes - kidneys - bones).

- There were no statistically significant differences in the psychological burnout scale in its dimensions among the doctors working at Al-Bayda Teaching Hospital according to the variable of years of experience (5-0 years - 10-6 years - 15-11 years - 20-16 years - 21 years and more).