Open AccessBurnout at a bone marrow transplantation unit in Turkey: Effects of interactive psychoeducational seminars
Author(s) -
Ayşegül Yılmaz,
Atilla Soykan,
Tuğba Ayaz,
Elmas Ince Kale,
Günhan Gürman,
Hakan Kumbasar
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
turkish journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1303-6165
pISSN - 1300-0144
DOI - 10.3906/sag-0902-13
Subject(s) - burnout , marital status , emotional exhaustion , depersonalization , hospital anxiety and depression scale , quality of life (healthcare) , psychology , medicine , anxiety , clinical psychology , turkish , psychiatry , nursing , population , linguistics , environmental health , philosophy
doi:10.3906/sag-0902-13 Burnout at a bone marrow transplantation unit in Turkey: effects of interactive psychoeducational seminars Aim: Health staff working at bone marrow transplantation units (BMTUs) is found to be at a higher risk for suffering from burnout. This paper reports a critical assessment of how burnout level of the health staff working at a bone marrow transplantation unit changes after psychoeducational seminars. Materials and methods: The study was conducted by the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Division at the BMTU of the Department of Hematology at Ankara University, School of Medicine. Sixty-one health staff members (67%) working at the BMTU filled out socio-demographic and occupational data form, and validated Turkish versions of Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Hospital Anxiety-Depression Scale (HADS), and Quality of Life Scale-short form (SF-36). After the baseline data were collected, 29 members refused to attend the psychoeducational seminars and served as “control” group for the study. The remaining 32 (intervention group) attended 9 interactive seminars focusing on reducing burnout. After completion of the seminars, both intervention and control groups fille