فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

INTRODUCTION: Health‑care workers in community service professions are the formerly candidatefor occupation burnout. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between empowerment andjob burnout among auxiliary health workers (behvarzan) at Fasa University of Medical Sciences.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this descriptive‑analytical study, 120 auxiliary health workers wereenrolled using the census. Spritzer’s psychological empowerment and Maslach burnout inventoryquestionnaires were used to collect the data. Then, they were analyzed through the SPSS software,using descriptive analytical tests.RESULTS: The findings of this study revealed that the auxiliary health workers’ empowerment wasin the range of 22–75 with a mean ± standard deviation [SD] of 48.5 ± 9.71, which is in a fairly highlevel considering the highest score (75) in this scale. Moreover, with respect to burnout (mean ± SDof 58.03 ± 18.64), 36 participants (30%) had low level of burnout, 69 subjects (57.5%) were at theintermediate level, and 15 (12.5%) suffered high levels of job burnout. According to the results ofthis study, there were a high correlation and negative relationship (r = 0.406, P > 0.001) betweenpsychological empowerment and job burnout among the auxiliary health workers. On the other hand,all empowerment components (competence, autonomy or independence, effectiveness, and trust)had a reverse and significant association with burnout.CONCLUSION: Based on the results of this study, the auxiliary health workers (behvarzan) were in agood range of empowerment; also, the dimensions of empowerment were correlated with job burnoutin Fasa university‑affiliated hospitals’ health workers. On the other hand, demographic features hadno association with these two factors. It is suggested that health authorities should take measures toempower the workers and identify and remove the effects of the various dimensions of job burnoutamong the health workers in these hospitals.