Burnout and presenteeism among healthcare workers in Nigeria: Implications for patient care, occupational health and workforce productivity

Burnout and presenteeism are two emerging occupational health challenges which share same locus among healthcare workers, and the trend is rising. We aim to define the magnitude of burnout and presenteeism among frontline members of the health workforce and explore any correlation between the two in...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Public Health Research 2021-01, Vol.10 (1), p.1900
Hauptverfasser: Nwosu, Arinze D G, Ossai, Edmund, Onwuasoigwe, Okechukwu, Ezeigweneme, Maureen, Okpamen, Jude
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Zusammenfassung:Burnout and presenteeism are two emerging occupational health challenges which share same locus among healthcare workers, and the trend is rising. We aim to define the magnitude of burnout and presenteeism among frontline members of the health workforce and explore any correlation between the two in order to provide empirical data from our socioeconomic and geographical background. We used self-administered questionnaire to conduct a cross-sectional study among the physicians and nurses in a regional trauma centre in Enugu, Eastern Nigeria; with the respondents selected by stratified random sampling. The Oldenburg burnout inventory and Stanford presenteeism scale were used to measure burnout and presenteeism respectively, while the 2-item patient-health questionnaire (PHQ-2) was used to screen for depression. The level of statistical significance was determined by a p value of
ISSN:2279-9028
2279-9036
2279-9036
DOI:10.4081/jphr.2021.1900