Burnout and coping strategies among nurses in Malaysia: a national-level cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This national-level study aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of burnout, as well as the coping strategies among nurses in the Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia.

Design

Using a complex sampling design, a two-stage stratified cluster sampling was performed to recruit MOH nurses between August and November 2019.

Setting and participants

A total of 2428 nurses from 32 hospitals and 28 district health offices answered the questionnaires based on Maslach Burnout Inventory for Human Services and Brief COPE. Complex sampling analysis was applied.

Outcome measures

The outcome of interest was the prevalence of burnout and its three domains of emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalisation (DP) and low personal accomplishment. ORs using 95% CIs wer

SUBMITTER: Zakaria N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9557773 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature