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Nurses’ burnout and associated risk factors during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Abstract Aims To examine the nurses' burnout and associated risk factors during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Design We followed the Cochrane criteria and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analysis guidelines for this systematic review and meta‐analysis. Data Sources PubMed, Scopus, ProQuest, Cochrane COVID‐19 registry, CINAHL and pre‐print services (medRχiv and PsyArXiv) were searched from January 1 to November 15, 2020 and we removed duplicates. Review Methods We applied a random effect model to estimate pooled effects since the heterogeneity between results was very high. Results Sixteen studies, including 18,935 nurses met the inclusion criteria. The overall prevalence of emotional exhaustion was 34.1%, of depersonalization was 12.6% and of lack of personal accomplishment was 15.2%. The main risk factors that increased nurses' burnout were the following: younger age, decreased social support, low family and colleagues readiness to cope with COVID‐19 outbreak, increased perceived threat of Covid‐19, longer working time in quarantine areas, working in a high‐risk environment, working in hospitals with inadequate and insufficient material and human resources, increased workload and lower level of specialized training regarding COVID‐19. Conclusion Nurses experience high levels of burnout during the COVID‐19 pandemic, while several sociodemographic, social and occupational factors affect this burnout. Impact We found that burnout among nurses is a crucial issue during the COVID‐19 pandemic. There is an urgent need to prepare nurses to cope better with COVID‐19 pandemic. Identification of risk factors for burnout could be a significant weapon giving nurses and health care systems the ability to response in a better way against the following COVID‐19 waves in the near future.
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Fear of COVID-19 Impact on Professional Quality of Life among Mental Health Workers
Stefanatou, P., Xenaki, L., Karagiorgas, I., Ntigrintaki, A.-A., Giannouli, E., Malogiannis, I. A., & Konstantakopoulos, G. (2022) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph19169949 · Cited by 47
“Younger age may be related to less experience and lack of specialized training, which consequently leads to limited capacity of managing crises or stressful professional situations [47].”
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“This high workload, combined with nursing understaffing, lack of resources, and longer working time in quarantine areas, increased the likelihood of developing burnout [24,25].”
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“Specifically, HCP who provided care to suspected or confirmed cases displayed higher levels of burnout symptoms as compared with their colleagues who did not involve in direct care delivery.(10,12) The relationships between burnout symptoms and professions were also documented in different studies, yet the directions…”
Experiences and perceptions of nurses working night shift: a qualitative systematic review
Weaver, S. H., de Cordova, P. B., Vitale, T. R., Hargwood, P., & Salmond, S. W. (2022) · JBI Evidence Synthesis · doi:10.11124/jbies-21-00472 · Cited by 38
Nantsupawat, A., Kutney-Lee, A. M., Abhicharttibutra, K., Wichaikhum, O., & Poghosyan, L. (2024) · BMC Nursing · doi:10.1186/s12912-024-01958-1 · Cited by 35
“Numerous international studies, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses, have documented higher rates of burnout [15] and intention to leave [41] among nursing professionals in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialBruyneel, A., Dello, S., Dauvergne, J. E., Kohnen, D., & Sermeus, W. (2024) · Intensive and Critical Care Nursing · doi:10.1016/j.iccn.2024.103885 · Cited by 35
Relationship between burnout and turnover intention among nurses: a network analysis
Zheng, J., Feng, S., Feng, Y., Wang, L., Gao, R. B., & Xue, B. (2024) · BMC Nursing · doi:10.1186/s12912-024-02624-2 · Cited by 35
Mental impact of Covid-19 among Spanish healthcare workers. A large longitudinal survey
Alonso, J., Vilagut, G., Alayo, I., Ferrer, M., Amigo, F., Peña, A. A., Aragonès, E., Campos, M. T., del Cura-González, I., Urreta, I., et al. (2022) · Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences · doi:10.1017/s2045796022000130 · Cited by 34
Nasrabadi, A. N., Abbasi, S., Mardani, A., Maleki, M., & Vlaisavljević, Ž. (2022) · Frontiers in Public Health · doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.1034624 · Cited by 34
Second Victims among Austrian Pediatricians (SeViD-A1 Study)
Potura, E., Klemm, V., Roesner, H., Sitter, B., Huscsava, H., Trifunovic-Koenig, M., Voitl, P., & Strametz, R. (2023) · Healthcare · doi:10.3390/healthcare11182501 · Cited by 34
“The growing body of evidence suggests that there is a negative correlation between increasing age and job-related stress levels and burnout among different healthcare professionals [20–22].”
The impact of career calling on nurse burnout: A moderated mediation model
Xie, S., Jing, J., Li, R., Yan, S., Yu, G., & Xu, Z. (2024) · International Nursing Review · doi:10.1111/inr.12957 · Cited by 33
Zarei, S., & Fooladvand, K. (2022) · BMC Psychology · doi:10.1186/s40359-022-00905-6 · Cited by 36
Grande, R. A. N., Berdida, D. J. E., Villagracia, H. N., Raguindin, S. M., Cornejo, L. T. O., Alreshidi, N. M., Alshammari, A. T., Aljebari, B. J., & Alabd, A. M. A. (2022) · Journal of Nursing Management · doi:10.1111/jonm.13754 · Cited by 33
“…emotional, and psychological capacity to provide quality nursing care, regardless of their professional competence, due to high levels of exhaustion, loss of energy, fatigue, negative emotions, low morale and inability to cope with current stressors (Dall’Ora et al., 2020; Galanis et al., 2021).”
BackgroundInfluentialMerkle, S. L., Welton, M., van Zyl, A., Chong, M., Tanner, A., Rose, C. E., Hertz, M. F., Hill, L., Leroy, Z. C., Sifre, K., et al. (2022) · The Journal of School Nursing · doi:10.1177/10598405221131048 · Cited by 32
“A metaanalysis of nurse burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic found similar results that some associated risk factors included increased workload, low levels of COVID-19 training, increased working times and number of patients (Galanis et al., 2021).”
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Анатольевна, Я. В., Suarez, A., & Kharchenko, A. (2021) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph19010335 · Cited by 32
“Another possible factor is burnout of the medical professionals, which increased dramatically during the pandemic [31].”
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Unachukwu, I. C., Abrams, M. P., Dolan, A. R., Oyekemi, K., Meisel, Z. F., South, E. C., & Aronowitz, S. V. (2023) · Harm Reduction Journal · doi:10.1186/s12954-023-00752-7 · Cited by 37
Registered nurses' psychological capital: A scoping review
Flinkman, M., Coco, K., Rudman, A., & Leino‐Kilpi, H. (2023) · International Journal of Nursing Practice · doi:10.1111/ijn.13183 · Cited by 37
Effectiveness of Individual-Based Strategies to Reduce Nurse Burnout: An Umbrella Review
Hsu, H., Lee, H., Hung, H., Chen, Y., Yen, M., Chiang, H., Chow, L., Fetzer, S. J., & Mu, P. (2024) · Journal of Nursing Management · doi:10.1155/2024/8544725 · Cited by 43
“Systematic reviews were searched in the Embase, MEDLINE (Ovid), Cochrane Library, CINAHL (EBSCO), Scopus, and WOS databases.”
Maideen, A. A., Idris, D. R., Lupat, A., Chung, Y. F., Haji‐Badarudin, H., Suhai, H., Abdullah, H. N., Omar, H., Kisut, R., Rahman, H. A., et al. (2022) · International Journal of Mental Health Nursing · doi:10.1111/inm.13031 · Cited by 36
“If the COVID-19 pandemic is here to stay and now most countries are entering the endemic phase, prolonged stress may result in burnout (Galanis et al. 2021).”
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“According to the study by Galanis (Galanis et al., 2021), during the COVID- 19 outbreak, 34.1%, 15.2% and 12.6% of nurses experienced high levels of emotional exhaustion, low personal accomplishment and depersonalisation, respectively.”
InfluentialXu, Y., Zheng, Q., Jiang, X., Guo, S., Kang, Y., Lin, Y., & Liu, G. (2023) · Nursing Open · doi:10.1002/nop2.1709 · Cited by 31
“We also found that social support were negatively correlated with of nurses' mental health during the COVID- 19 epidemic, which was similar to the finding of Galanis et al. (2021) that decreased social support was one of the main risk factors to increase the burnout of nurses.”
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“Despite having inadequate knowledge about this infectious disease and the lack of clinical guidelines, nurses continue to provide care for patients while dealing with anxieties about the risk of contracting the infection and potentially spreading it to their families and with unresolved fatigue from the high workload…”
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“On the contrary, Central Asia reported the lowest burnout symptoms (30, 31).”
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“…of the political authorities, these responsibilities tend to be delegated to semi-public institutions in which stakeholders, such as sickness funds and representatives of professionals, have a high level of bargaining power and defend their particular interests (Gerkens & Merkur, 2010).”
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Interventions to Reduce Electronic Health Record-Related Burnout: A Systematic Review
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The Use of Music to Manage Burnout in Nurses: A Systematic Review
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The Age of Young Nurses Is a Predictor of Burnout Syndrome during the Care of Patients with COVID-19
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“2% for lack of personal fulfillment [7].”
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The impact of COVID-19 on nurses’ job satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Prevalence of turnover intention among emergency nurses worldwide: a meta-analysis
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“The early pandemic phase’s PPE shortage forced nurses to work at increased infection risk, impacting their health and mental well-being and furthering their consideration of leaving the profession [75].”
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“Compassion fatigue (secondary traumatic stress and burnout) was found to be high in professionals who worked closely with COVID-19 patients (Buselli et al., 2020; Galanis et al., 2021; Orrù et al., 2021; Ortega-Galán et al., 2020; Ruiz-Fernández et al., 2020; Trumello et al., 2020).”
BackgroundResult
Metadata
- Authors
- Galanis, P., Vraka, I., Fragkou, D., Bilali, A., & Kaitelidou, D.
- Affiliations
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
- Panagiotis & Aglaia Kyriakou Children's Hospital (GR)
- Center for Health Services Management and Evaluation Department of Nursing School of Health Sciences National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens Greece
- Corresponding author
- Galanis, Petros
- Venue
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2021-03-25
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 3286-3302
- ISSN
- 0309-2402 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2648
- PMC
- PMC8250618
- OpenAlex
- W3147264347
- Cited by
- 993
- References
- 100
- Citations by year
- 2026: 87 · 2025: 162 · 2024: 236 · 2023: 293 · 2022: 179 · 2021: 33
- FWCI
- 24.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Advanced Nursing (publishedVersion)
- medRxiv (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Occupational Health and Burnout
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Keywords
- nurse burnout, COVID-19 pandemic, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, personal accomplishment, risk factors, social support, workload, threat perception, COVID-19 training, nurses
- MeSH terms
- Burnout, Psychological, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Burnout, Professional, Humans, Nurses, Risk Factors, Pandemics
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