Burnout of Nurses Working in a University Hospital and the Effect of Social Support

Purpose: In this study, levels of burnout in nurses working in Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine and perceived social support systems and to examine the factors that affect burnout. Material and Methods: Socio-demographic data collection form for this purpose, Maslach Burnout Inventory, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support 403 nurses applied. Results: According to the results obtained from the nurses social support systems are adequate but moderate emotional exhaustion (EE) and depersonalization (D) were live. In terms of personal achievement, it is concluded their high levels of burnout. Nurses working in night mode of operation of the data evaluated EE and D were higher mean scores than the other groups, and statistically significant (p = 0.001). Conclusion: Nurses perceived social support, burnout was found to affect. In particular sub-group of friend support and burnout was determined that the most important social support. [Cukurova Med J 2014; 39(4.000): 752-764]