The Job Burnout of Therapists in the Licensed Addiction Centers in Isfahan and its Relationship with Individual and Professional Factors

Addiction treatment centers have been increased in the country. The therapist’s health is important for their contact with patients with an excessive damage. caused this survey to study job burnout of the therapists in the licensed addiction centers in Isfahan and its relevance with individual and professional factors.

This was a cross-sectional study done on 137 therapists in withdrawal addiction centers of Isfahan، Iran in 2011 (34 physicians، 14 psychiatrists، 42 psychologists and 46 nurses). Data collection was done using Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) (α = 0. 87). The subjects were selected through simple random sampling and the questionnaires were distributed among them. Frequency، percentage، standard deviation، Student’s t-test، correlation coefficient and analysis of variance were used.

The results of this study suggested that the mean score of lob burnout in the survey sample compared with the referent score was weak and the job burnout in the emotional exhaustion (13. 79) and depersonalization (4. 44) dimensions was weak and in terms of decreasing personal efficiency (14. 87) reported to be medium. A significant correlation was observed between the job burnout and variables of job background، consent of income، interest in job and attitude to the effectiveness of clinical work.

Although weak، there was some burnout among the study subjects، so that the intensity in two dimensions of emotional exhaustion and personal efficiency reduction is worrying. Therefore، it is necessary to distinguish the intensifier and reducer factors in individual، organizational and environmental dimensions.