Correlation of Daily Work Duration and Burnout Syndrome Incidence of COVID-19 Referral Hospital Health Workers at Jember

Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the workload of health workers, especially the duration of daily work. This increased work duration will result work stress and lead to mental health problems,which known as burnout syndrome.This study aims to determine whether there were relationship between the duration of daily work and burnout syndrome of COVID-19 referral hospital health workers at Jember. Method: This research method was observational analytic with a cross-sectional and conducted at RSD dr. Soebandi, Jember Klinik Hospital, and Kaliwates General Hospital in May 2021-June 2022. The respondents of this study were health workers at the COVID-19 referral hospital at Jember. Data collection was used a demographic data questionnaire and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) questionnaire was used to measure the degree of burnout syndrome. The data from this study were analyzed using the Chi-square and Spearman correlation. Result: Data from 213 health workers who work as doctors and nurses had shown there were no correlation between the duration of daily work and burnout syndrome in during the COVID-19 pandemic with ρ-value of 0.699 (ρ >0.05) Conclussion: No correlation between the duration of daily work and burnout syndrome in health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jember