Occupational health and safety conditions and burnout syndrome of actors' union members

This descriptive study conducted to determine occupational health and safety conditions and Burnout Syndrome levels of Actors' Union members, was conducted during August-November 2019. A survey form, which includes Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), which consists of Emotional Exhaustion (EE), Depersonalization (D) and Personal Accomplishment (PA) subscales, was sent to 1337 members of the Union via e-survey. Participants consisted of 152 people (11.3%), 46.1% were women, the median age was 42.0, 38.8% had SGK 4/B as insurance. Work accidents were experienced in the workplaces of some participants (29.6 %) where they have worked in the past 12 months. TV series sets were the most common places where work accidents occurred. Those who were under age of 50, had no children, had a chronic disease, reported their own health status as moderate, did not perform regular physical activity, slept 6 hours or less during their working periods, reported their sleep as irregular and poor quality, had job stress level of 6 points or more, worked less than 8 months in the last 12 months, did not want to start acting though now, had worse relations with employer, co-workers and other employees, experienced verbal violence and mobbing, had always-often problems in utilizing health services had high burnout levels according to at least one of the three subscales of MBI (p<0.05). Two groups were formed by dividing the subscale scores at their median values and two logistic regression models were established for all three subscales. In EE (OR=5.74; 95% CI=2.16-15.27) and D (OR=4.14; 95% CI=1.66-10.35) subscales those who slept 6 hours or less during their working periods, in EE (OR=8.23; 95% CI=3.07-22.08) and D (OR=3.18; 95% CI=1.30-7.73) subscales those who had work stress levels of 6 points and above, in D (OR=4.10; 95% CI=1.63-10.34) subscale those who experienced mobbing, in PA (OR=5.24; 95% CI=1.58-17.35) subscale those who reported their own health as moderate had a higher burnout (p<0.05). Occupational health and safety conditions of actors should be improved. Activities that will increase the awareness of the actors on these issues should be done. Keywords: Actor, Burnout Syndrome, Occupational health and safety