부산대학교 도서관

Objective: Analyze hospital employees' burnout inventory, and evaluate the relationships between subjective burnout and musculoskeletal symptoms. Methods: Study subjects were employees of a regional hospital in New Taipei City, chosen by purposive sampling method. The study used self-administered on-line burnout inventory and musculoskeletal symptoms questionnaires to collect data from volunteer employees. The burnout inventory data were analyzed with an independent t test and analysis of variance. The relationships between burnout and musculoskeletal symptoms were analyzed with the Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: A total of 532 samples were collected for analysis. The following factors are significantly correlated to burnout: young age, female gender, shift work and nursing work. Increase in seniority is not related to burnout. Musculoskeletal symptoms in the following locations are positively correlated to severity of burnout: neck, lower back, bilateral shoulder, bilateral wrist, right hand, bilateral calf and right foot. Conclusions: The study shows that hospital employee populations at risk of burnout require services given on the worksite in order to prevent abnormal-workload-triggered diseases. During the assessment of musculoskeletal hazards at work, evaluation tools should include mental-stress measurement tools, e.g. burnout inventory, when employees complain of pain foci as found in this study, in addition to the traditional ergonomic evaluation tools.