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30 APRIL 2025, WEDNESDAY
10.30-11.45 ORAL PRESENTATION SESSION - 12

The Relationship Between Excessive Workload, Psychiatric Symptoms And Burnout in Health Workers

Cansu Bak1, Filiz Özsoy1

1. Department of Psychiatry, Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University, Tokat, Turkey

DOI: 10.5080/kes27.abs21 Page 42
Burnout Syndrome is defined as a chronic response to stress.Compared to other professions,healthcare workers report a higher incidence of burnout due to working hours,working conditions etc. based on this, our study aimed to investigate the relationship between burnout and specific psychiatric symptoms in nurses,who represent most healthcare workers in our country,who face excessive workloads due to a lack of sufficient staff and are exposed to a higher workload per person.With this study,we believe that we can contribute to the literature,which has long examined the effects of burnout on nurses,by exploring both the relationship between psychiatric symptoms and burnout,as well as the impact of workload on burnout. The study included nurses from University Hospital.Participants were administered the Demographic Data Form,Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-Short Form(DASS21),Work Overload Scale(WOS),Maslach Burnout Inventory(MBI).The research was approved by the Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University Faculty of Medicine Clinical Research Ethics Committee(registration number24KAEK194). A total of 74 participants were included.The clinics where the participants worked were surgery(31),intensive care(11),emergency(6),internal medicine(26).None had a diagnosed psychiatric illness.The MBI scale results showed:emotional exhaustion(19.47±3.89),desensitization(6.70±4.82), personal accomplishment (20.32±3.79),and total score(46.48±7.55).Although there is no cutoff score for this scale,moderate levels of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization were observed in the subscales,high levels of burnout were seen in personal achievement. It was found that as individuals workloads increased,their burnout rates, as well as depression,anxiety,stress levels also increased.A negative correlation was also observed between the personal achievement/failure subscale of the MBI and the workload scale scores. Based on the emergence of excessive workload, burnout and accompanying psychiatric symptoms,it is thought that determining the burnout levels of nurses and their relationship with psychiatric symptoms would be beneficial in taking individual and institutional measures to reduce existing burnout and enable early intervention.Protecting the mental health of healthcare workers will help prevent the increasing number of resignations,psychiatric treatment admissions,self-medication,suicide attempts in recent years.