The effect of occupational health and safety towards burnout level of nurses

The concept of burnout can be seen commonly on nurses like other occupations. This concept was first introduced by Fredeunberger in 1974. Fredeunberger had stated that burnout occurred more commonly in occupations whose members directly work with people.In this study, the effects of occupational health and safety conditions of on the burnout of nurses working in Izmir hospitals and its rural areas Tire, Torbali, Odemis, Bayindir and Selcuk state hospitals were examined.The participation of the study was 402 persons. A questionnaire including Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and Devebakan (2007) occupational Health and Safety used for data. Variance analysis (ANOVA), T test, pearson correlation and repression tests have been used for analizing the survey data.It was seen that as age increased, emotional burnout and depersonalization decreased; as years of employment increased, burnout was experienced less according to the emotional burnout and depersonalization subscales.