Occupational burn-out, fatigue and stress in professional rescuers: a cross-sectional study in Kazakhstan
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Denis Vinnikov1,2, Gulnara Kapanova3,4, Zhanna Romanova3
1Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan denisvinnikov@mail.ru.
Objectives:
To find predictors of burn-out in a cohort of rescuers.
Design:
Cross-sectional study.
Setting:
Republican Rescue Squad (N=105) and Republican Mudslide Rescue Service under the Ministry of Emergency Situations (N=480) in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Participants:
In total, we included 268 (80% men, median age 38 (IQR 22) years) rescuers from both organisations.
Primary And Secondary Outcome Measures:
We offered a questionnaire to rescuers, which included Maslach Burnout Inventory, quantifying emotional exhaustion (EX), cynicism (CY) and professional efficacy (PE) along with fatigue, stress and health-related quality of life (HRQL) tools.
Results:
Lower scores of HRQL (Physical Component Score (PCS) beta -0.04 (95% CI -0.06 to -0.02); Mental Component Score beta -0.03 (95% CI -0.05 to -0.01)), higher fatigue (Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) score beta 0.03 (95% CI 0.03 to 0.04)) and stress (Perceived Stress Score-10 beta 0.04 (95% CI 0.02 to 0.06)) independently predicted greater EX. Lower PCS (beta -0.03 (95% CI -0.06 to -0.01)) and FSS (beta 0.02 (95% CI 0.01 to 0.03)) could predict more CY burn-out. In addition to stress, higher education (beta 0.86 (95% CI 0.40 to 1.32)) was positively associated with lower burn-out severity in PE domain.
Conclusions:
Fatigue, stress and HRQL were associated with burn-out in rescuers. Addressing these predictors may help guide further interventions to reduce occupational burn-out.
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