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. 2021 Feb;35(1):1-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2020.10.008. Epub 2020 Oct 21.

Resilience and burnout in healthcare students and inpatient psychiatric nurses: A between-groups study of two populations

Marissa D Abram  1 , William Jacobowitz  2
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Resilience and burnout in healthcare students and inpatient psychiatric nurses: A between-groups study of two populations

Marissa D Abram et al. Arch Psychiatr Nurs. 2021 Feb.

Abstract

Background: Stressful environments can have significant effects on an individual and lead to burnout. Psychological consequences of burnout include trauma reactions, depression, anxiety and substance use disorders. Resilience, a protective mechanism can mitigate the negative impact of burnout.

Method: This study utilizes an exploratory correlational design to determine whether or not there is 1) a similar correlation between resilience and burnout between psychiatric nurses working in a high stress environment and students who are naive to the high stress academic environment and 2) a higher level of resilience in the psychiatric nurses compared to the healthcare students.

Results: A significant inverse relationship was observed with respect to resilience and burnout in both the professional nurse and student groups. However, the inpatient psychiatric nurse group was not found to have a higher level of resilience than the student group, when controlling for age.

Conclusion: This suggests that resilience to burnout is not related to the work environment but life experience (age) was found to be a factor related resilience in this sample.

Keywords: Academic stress; Burnout; Resilience; Workplace stress.

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