Occupational Burnout and Productivity Loss: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Academic University Staff

Burnout has been endorsed with serious negative health- and work-related outcomes. This study is aimed to assess the prevalence of burnout and its association with work productivity among academic staff. This cross-sectional study involved 240 academic staff working at a public university in Egypt....

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Published in:	Frontiers in public health Vol. 10; p. 861674
Main Authors:	Amer, Shaimaa A A M, Elotla, Sally Fawzy, Ameen, Abeer Elsayed, Shah, Jaffer, Fouad, Ahmed Mahmoud
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 25-04-2022
Subjects:	academic staff burnout Burnout, Professional - epidemiology Burnout, Professional - psychology Cross-Sectional Studies Egypt emotional exhaustion Humans occupational Prevalence productivity Public Health Surveys and Questionnaires Universities productivity burnout occupational academic staff emotional exhaustion Egypt
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Summary:	Burnout has been endorsed with serious negative health- and work-related outcomes. This study is aimed to assess the prevalence of burnout and its association with work productivity among academic staff. This cross-sectional study involved 240 academic staff working at a public university in Egypt. Participants were invited to complete a web-based questionnaire involving basic personal, health, and work-related characteristics. Besides, Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) was used to assess occupational burnout dimensions (i.e., emotional exhaustion "EE," depersonalization "DP," and personal accomplishment "PA"), while work productivity was assessed with the Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ). In total, 28% of respondents scored high in EE [95% confidence interval (CI): 22.5-33.8%], 18.3% high in DP (95% CI: 13.8-3.6%), and 88.3% scored low in PA (95% CI: 83.8-91.9%). Seventy percent of respondents scored high in only one burnout dimension, 21.7% scored high in two dimensions, while 7.1% scored high in all three dimensions. Multivariable analysis showed that EE was the only burnout dimension that showed a statistically significant association between absenteeism and presenteeism rates. The absenteeism rates among respondents with moderate and high EE were 2.1 and 3.3 times the rates among those with low EE, respectively. Likewise, the presenteeism rates among respondents with moderate and high EE were 2.4 and 4.7 times the rates among those with low EE, respectively. Academic staff showed a high prevalence of at least one burnout dimension. Moderate and high EE scores were significantly associated with increased productivity loss when compared to low EE.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Edited by: Bingqin Li, University of New South Wales, Australia This article was submitted to Occupational Health and Safety, a section of the journal Frontiers in Public Health Reviewed by: Kun-Shan Wu, Tamkang University, Taiwan; Yang Shen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
ISSN:	2296-2565 2296-2565
DOI:	10.3389/fpubh.2022.861674