Burnout in Hospital and Pre-Hospital Emergency Departments: A Systematic Review Study

Hospital and Pre-hospital emergency staff are the first to experience stressful situations, and this long-term stress leads to burnout. This study aimed to investigate burnout in hospital and pre-hospital emergency departments as a systematic review study.

In this systematic review study, articles published in Persian-language database such as SID, Iranmedex, Magiran, and English-language databases as Science Direct, PubMed, ProQuest, Cochrane Library, Embase, Scopus, and Google Scholar search engine were examined from 2010 to 2022, using keyword such as emergency, emergency medical staff, pre-hospital emergency, emergency department nurses were studied. The quality of the given articles was evaluated using a STROBE checklist.

In this study, 27 articles were used for review. The rate of burnout was divided into three categories: Low, Moderate and High. This study was reported as low in 4 studies, Moderate in 17 studies, and 4 High in 4 studies. The relationship between demographic variables and burnout, the highest relationship between work experience, and burnout was seen in 15 studies.

The results of the present study indicate a significant relationship in most studies between work experience and burnout. Due to the moderate prevalence of burnout in hospital and pre-hospital emergency departments, health planners and policymakers should adopt the appropriate methods and techniques to prevent this phenomenon