Burnout among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana: A Critical Assessment.

Burnout among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana: A Critical Assessment.

Odonkor, Stephen T;Frimpong, Kwasi;
BioMed research international 2020 Vol. 2020 pp. 1614968
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Health workers are prone to burnout, which can have an adverse effect on their person and the patients to whom care is offered. The goal of this paper was to assess the levels of burnout experienced by healthcare workers in Accra, Ghana. The study was conducted using the cross-sectional study design. Questionnaires were used to obtain data from 365 respondents who worked in 12 major healthcare facilities. Data obtained were analyzed with SPSS version 23. Majority of the respondents were females (56.7%) as against males (43.3%). The total score for all burnout variables among health worker groups ranged from good (71.50%), alarming (12.60%), acute crisis (6.02%), and burnout (9.90%). Among the health worker groups, nurses had the highest percentage score values for all burnout variables. There was an association between burnout and these sociodemographic characteristics: age ( < 0.001), gender ( = 0.003), educational qualification ( < 0.001), occupation ( < 0.001), years of work experience ( < 0.001), marital status ( < 0.001), and parenthood (having children) ( < 0.001). It is recommended that measures should be put in place in Ghanaian hospitals to assess stress and burnout levels to ensure people who are going through such situations are properly cared and supported.

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