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Burnout syndrome and its prevalence in primary care nursing: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Title
Burnout syndrome and its prevalence in primary care nursing: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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BMC Primary Care, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12875-018-0748-z
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Carolina S. Monsalve-Reyes, Concepción San Luis-Costas, Jose L. Gómez-Urquiza, Luis Albendín-García, Raimundo Aguayo, Guillermo A. Cañadas-De la Fuente

Abstract

burnout syndrome is a significant problem in nursing professionals. Although, the unit where nurses work may influence burnout development. Nurses that work in primary care units may be at higher risk of burnout. The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and low personal accomplishment in primary care nurses. We performed a meta-analysis. We searched Pubmed, CINAHL, Scopus, Scielo, Proquest, CUIDEN and LILACS databases up to September 2017 to identify cross-sectional studies assessing primary care nurses' burnout with the Maslach Burnout Inventory were included. The search was done in September 2017. After the search process, n = 8 studies were included in the meta-analysis, representing a total sample of n = 1110 primary care nurses. High emotional exhaustion prevalence was 28% (95% Confidence Interval = 22-34%), high depersonalization was 15% (95% Confidence Interval = 9-23%) and 31% (95% Confidence Interval = 6-66%) for low personal accomplishment. Problems such as emotional exhaustion and low personal accomplishment are very common among primary care nurses, while depersonalization is less prevalent. Primary care nurses are a burnout risk group.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 397 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 50 13%
Student > Master 49 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 6%
Researcher 22 6%
Other 65 16%
Unknown 162 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 98 25%
Medicine and Dentistry 50 13%
Psychology 32 8%
Social Sciences 8 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 2%
Other 38 10%
Unknown 165 42%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 May 2018.
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#16,053,755
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#1,529
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#196,364
of 339,704 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Primary Care
#43
of 58 outputs
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