The Role of Mindfulness and Spiritual Experiences in Predicting Job Burnout in Nurses

Burnout includes occupational hazards of employees, especially nurses, and is affected by several factors. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of mindfulness and spiritual experiences in predicting burnout of nurses.

The current research was descriptive-correlational. The sample population included all the nurses in Birjand, Iran, in the second six months of 2022, of whom 280 were selected through available sampling. The data collection instruments were Chadwick et al.'s mindfulness, Underwood and Tersey's spiritual experiences, and Maslach's burnout questionnaires. To analyze the data, the mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation test were used on the SPSS version 22 software. In the present study, all ethical considerations were observed and the authors reported no conflict of interests.

The results showed that the relationship of mindfulness (r=0.569) and spiritual experiences (r=-0.615) was inverse with job burnout, and the components of mindfulness and spiritual experiences predicted 42.9% of the variance in job burnout (P<0.01).

Based on the results, by planning to increase the mindfulness and spiritual experiences of nurses, it is possible to significantly help reduce their burnout.