Iranian Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

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Khakdal S, Kiani A, Ghamari H. Investigation of Relationship between Need for Drama and Work Context with Job Burnout in Nurses of Ardabil City in 2019. IJMEHM 2019; 12 :220-230
URL: http://ijme.tums.ac.ir/article-1-6112-en.html

Nurses are always exposed to job burnout due to high workload. This research was performed to investigate relationship between need for drama and work context with job burnout in nurses. The study was a descriptive survey. The whole nurses Ardabil city, comprised the statistical population of this research. From this population, 247 nurses were selected by convenience sampling method. For data collection  the following questionnaires were used: job burnout questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha coefficient0.76), work context questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.83) and need for drama scale (Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.81). For data analysis, descriptive statistics and statistics from Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression were used. Results showed that between work context and job burnout (p<0.01) there is a significant negative relationship and between need for drama and job burnout (p<0.01) there is a significant positive relationship. The results showed that the relationship between need for drama and work context are two factors that affect the job burnout, which more attention to these indicators can reduce burnout in nurses.