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A Study to Assess Prevalence of Job Burnout of Employee during COVID-19 Second Outbreak in Nepal


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Burnout is a state of mental and physical exhaustion that decrease interest in your career, friendships, and family interactions. Job-burnout means being emotionally exhausted, depersonalized and feelings lack of personal accomplishments. Burnout occurs in an individual's due to chronic stress. Job -Burnout can occur in any setting. The main aim of the study is to assess the prevalence of job burnout of employee during COVID-19 second outbreak in Nepal. The descriptive study of job burnout attempts to assess prevalence of job burnout and to assess the contributions of personal factors to job burnout (age, gender, marital status, & type of family, area in which they are living, occupation, Monthly income & province). This study included 231 samples collected from online. The tools used in the study are: 1) Job Burnout scale 2) Personal data sheet (gender, age, occupation, monthly income…etc.). In order to collect data Quantitative method was used. Descriptive statistics and independent t-Test were used to analyze the result of quantitative measures. Majority of the respondents 83.2% worked during lockdown period. The total score of job burnout mean is 57.50. The study showed that there are significant statistical differences at (α≤0.05) in job burnout level due to gender. There is no statistically significant difference between burnout scores and working during lockdown period. This study will contribute to the concerned authority to plan awareness and methods to reduce job burnout.

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Job-Burnout, People, COVID-19, Pandemic
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Pujan Sharma
Manmohan Memorial Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Swoyambhu, Kathmandu, Nepal

Abstract


Burnout is a state of mental and physical exhaustion that decrease interest in your career, friendships, and family interactions. Job-burnout means being emotionally exhausted, depersonalized and feelings lack of personal accomplishments. Burnout occurs in an individual's due to chronic stress. Job -Burnout can occur in any setting. The main aim of the study is to assess the prevalence of job burnout of employee during COVID-19 second outbreak in Nepal. The descriptive study of job burnout attempts to assess prevalence of job burnout and to assess the contributions of personal factors to job burnout (age, gender, marital status, & type of family, area in which they are living, occupation, Monthly income & province). This study included 231 samples collected from online. The tools used in the study are: 1) Job Burnout scale 2) Personal data sheet (gender, age, occupation, monthly income…etc.). In order to collect data Quantitative method was used. Descriptive statistics and independent t-Test were used to analyze the result of quantitative measures. Majority of the respondents 83.2% worked during lockdown period. The total score of job burnout mean is 57.50. The study showed that there are significant statistical differences at (α≤0.05) in job burnout level due to gender. There is no statistically significant difference between burnout scores and working during lockdown period. This study will contribute to the concerned authority to plan awareness and methods to reduce job burnout.

Keywords


Job-Burnout, People, COVID-19, Pandemic

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