Predictors of Burnout Common Mental Health Problems among Health Care Workers Managing Pmtct Patients in Secondary Health Facilities in Oyo State,  Nigeria

doi:10.47494/mesb.v21i.1064

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47494/mesb.v21i.1064

Keywords:

Burnout, healthcare, HIV/ AIDS, Infections, workers

Abstract

The experience of burnout is brought about by continuous exposure to stressors and failure of coping strategies leading to exhaustion. Burnout has detrimental effects to the service provider both physically and psychologically. Few studies have been conducted on stressors and burnout among healthcare workers in PMTCT centers and few steps are being taken by the administrators of the healthcare organizations to mitigate the effect this psychological distresstress on the healthcare workers. The study employed a descriptive cross-sectional study. The sample size was two hundred and eighty-one. A multistage sampling technique was adopted. Stage 1 used a purposive sampling technique to select secondary healthcare in Oyo state. Stage 2 involved the use of stratified proportionate sampling techniques to allocate 48%, 22%, 21%, 5% and 4% of questionnaires to Nurses, CHO, Doctors, Lab Scientist and SCHEW respectively. Stage 3 involved using a convenience sampling techniques to administer the questionnaire according to healthcare workers. Questionnaire was retrieved, coded and analyzed using SPSS version 23 and results were presented in tables. Result showed that mean age of respondents was 32.9±6.04. Mean years in service was 8.06 ± 4.41. Majority (64.8%) had majorly been on day duty. Many (62.6%) respondents who were second line workers. Prominent among the common mental health problems suffered were Insomnia (42%) and headache (48%). About one-fifth (18.5%) were at risk of burnout. One-third (33.8%) experienced high stigmatization. 57.3% experienced on high workload. Interpersonal conflict rate at workplace was minimal. Major organization constraint was use of poor equipment. Demographic variables were associated with burnout (p<.05) and common mental health problem (p<.01). Burnout was majorly associated with Anxiety (p<.01), profession (p<.05), workload (p<.01). Common mental health problems was found to be associated with one another (p<.05). Though the workload decreases as service year increase, respondents majorly faced high workload which is a major predictor of burnout among respondents. It is therefore important that there is reduction in the workload and the shift duties be properly arranged to minimize the risk of burnouts and common mental health problems.

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