Occupational Burnout Syndrome and Associated Factors among Health Care Workers in Public Hospitals Bale zone, South east Ethiopia, 2021

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Abstract Background:According to burnout syndrome, there is a global shortage of around 7.2 million health professionals.Globally, the estimated cost to replace health care workers who leave their profession is $160,000–$1,000,000, depending on specialty and experience. There were little or few studies conducted on overall occupational burnout syndrome among healthcare workers in healthcare profession; especially in public hospitals inEthiopia. Objective: To assess the prevalence of occupational burnout syndrome and associated factors among healthcare workers working in Public Hospitals of Bale zone, South east Ethiopia, 2021. Methods:An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among health care workersfrom April to May, 2021 by using simple random sampling method.Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data.EpiInfo version-7, was used to enter data before being exported to SPSS version 25.Descriptive statistics, bivariable and multi-variable binary logistic regression analysis were used. We used odds ratio and 95% CI to report associated factors.P-value < 0.05was used to declare statistical significance. Results:A total of 385 health care workers were participated with response rate of 91.5%.The mean of the participants age was 29.5 (S.D + 4.046).The overall prevalence of burnout syndromewas 50.6% (95% CI, 46,56). Sex (AOR: 0.52, 95%CI: [0.29-0.94]), job satisfaction (negatively) (AOR: 3.43, 95%CI: [1.30-9.02]), intension to leave work(positively) (AOR: 4.05, 95%CI: [2.32-7.08]), health status(negatively) (AOR: 4.72, 95%CI: [2.42-9.19]), health problems(Positively) (headache) (AOR: 0.18, 95%CI: [0.08-0.41]), and (backache) (AOR: 0.15, 95%CI: [0.06-0.35]), and Medication(positively) (Pain killer) (AOR: 0.34, 95%CI: [0.14-0.82]), and alcohol use (AOR: 0.36, 95%CI: [0.10-1.29]) were selected as significantly associated factor with overall burnout syndrome.Conclusion: The prevalence of the presentstudy was relatively larger than the previous similar studies carried outin Ethiopia.But less than similar study conducted in China.Sex, job satisfaction, intension to leave work, health status, health problems (headache and backache), and medication (pain killer and alcohol) were selected as independent predictors of burnout syndrome.Recommendation: The Oromia Regional Administrative Health Bureau Should develop programs and strategy focusing on occupational burnout prevention and reduction in public hospitals.Hospital executives hold on-site lectures and workshops on the methods and skills needed to avoid occupational burnout. Further studies should be needed with other type of study design. Key words: Occupational burnout, Health care workers, Emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, personal accomplishment, Burnout syndrome, Ethiopia.