Abstract:

Burnout is especially seen in occupations such as doctors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, sales representatives, bank employees which require a high level of interaction with people. Burnout is described as the continuous chronic sensitiveness that employees suffer from and occurs as a reaction to stress. It is stated that burnout syndrome causes important problems especially for working people and people who get burnout syndrome suffer from physical and psychological disorders. Burnout syndrome may result in absenteeism, not being at work during the office hours, increase of employee turnover rates, not concentrating on his/her task which all result in low performance and cause high cost for organizations. The purpose of this study is to determine the burnout level of healthcare workers and to reveal the burnout level in terms of demographic variables and work-load and other variables. The sample involves 130 healthcare workers who participated in the study The data obtained was analyzed statistically and results showed that levels of burn out of health workers significantly varied in terms of gender, age, education, occupation and income as well as work-load and tenure.

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