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Multicenter Study
. 2025 Apr 28:70:1608337.
doi: 10.3389/ijph.2025.1608337. eCollection 2025.

Burnout Among Health Professionals Working in Intensive Care Units of Southern Ethiopia: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study

Seyoum Hailu  1 , Mesfin Gurmu  1 , Gose Husen  2 , Adamu Tesfaye  1 , Birhanu Muleta  3 , Henok Yeshitila  1 , Belayneh Bekele  1
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Multicenter Study

Burnout Among Health Professionals Working in Intensive Care Units of Southern Ethiopia: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study

Seyoum Hailu et al. Int J Public Health. .

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of burnout among health professionals working in intensive care units.

Methods: After receiving ethical clearance from the institutional review board of Dilla University College of Health Sciences with protocol unique number duirb/033/23-05, a multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted. Binary and multivariate logistic regressions were used to assess the relationship between burnout syndrome as dependent and various personal job factors as independent factors.

Results: The overall prevalence of BOS among HCPs working in the selected university hospitals of southern Ethiopia is 38.1%. Health professionals who worked at night duty were 4.15 times more likely to be in a state of burnout as compared to those who were on day duty shift [AOR = 4.15, 95%CI (1.27-13.58)].

Conclusion: Burnout is a great public health concern. Age, marital status, workload, working the night shift, fear of patient death, less quipped setup, and absence of extra-time duty payment were among the predictive variables.

Keywords: Ethiopia; ICU; burnout; health professionals; intensive care unit.

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The authors declare that they do not have any conflicts of interest.

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