Background China has made great achievements in the preventon and treatment of leprosy afer the efforts of relevant medical staff. However, confrontng the talent shortage, inadequate overall quality, and unstable medical team, so far there has been no research on the job burnout of medical personnel engaged in leprosy preventon and treatment.
Objective This investigation aims to understand the current situation of job burnout of medical staff involved in leprosy preventon and treatment work in China, explore the potental influencing factors of job burnout, and provide policy recommendatons for health administratve departments to establish a high-quality leprosy talent team.
Methods Data were obtained from the China Leprosy Preventon Associaton's questonnaire survey of 439 personnel of 107 insttutons in 18 provinces across the country from October to December 2018. Survey tools included the General Health Questonnaire, the Job Satsfacton Scale, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI-GS), and the self-designed self-assessment questonnaire for personal status. Data analysis was performed using Kruskal-Wallis H test and ordered logistc regression.
Results Among the 439 interviewed leprosy specifed medical staff, 250 (56.9%) had different levels of job burnout. The incidence rates of mild, moderate, and severe job burnout were 30.1%, 18.9%, and 7.9%, respectvely. The staff reportng poor mental health and low job satsfacton accounted for 32.1% and 32.6% of total leprosy specifed medical staff, respectvely. The univariate analysis found signifcant differences in mental health, job satsfacton, gender, age, job type, insttuton level, and seven self-assessment scores among the leprosy medical staff with different levels of job burnout (P < 0.05). The results of multvariate analysis showed unsatsfactory work (OR=5.782, 95%CI:3.639-9.186), poor mental health status (OR=3.484, 95%CI:2.225-5.454), and no administratve dutes (OR=1.564, 95%CI:1.001-2.443) were risk factors for job burnout; among the different job types, clinical physicians (OR=0.415, 95%CI:0.218-0.792), public health physicians (OR=0.388, 95%CI:0.187-0.808), and pharmacists/nursing/medicine technicians (OR=0.405, 95%CI:0.194-0.847) had a signifcantly lower risk of job burnout than the administratve and logistc staff.
Conclusion Chinese leprosy preventon and treatment personnel have a high incidence rate of job burnout, and mental health and job satsfacton are the main influencing factors; therefore, and it is necessary to carry out interventons for medical staff engaged in leprosy preventon and treatment.
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