AUTHOR=Daryanto Besut , Putri Frilya Rachma , Kurniawan Jemmy , Ilmawan Muhammad , Fajar Jonny Karunia 

TITLE=The Prevalence and the Associated Sociodemographic-Occupational Factors of Professional Burnout Among Health Professionals During COVID-19 Pandemic in Malang, Indonesia: A Cross-Sectional Study

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.894946

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2022.894946

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Background</title><p>Since 2020, Indonesian health professionals have been affected by burnout as the physiological impact due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Malang has contributed to a substantial number of new daily cases and death rates in East Java, an epicenter of COVID-19 in Indonesia. However, a study about how burnout affected Malang health professionals was never conducted.</p></sec><sec><title>Objectives</title><p>This research aimed to assess the prevalence and factors associated with burnout among health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malang, Indonesia.</p></sec><sec><title>Materials and Methods</title><p>A cross-sectional study was carried out with an online survey conducted in 5 major hospitals in Malang. We conducted a study about the prevalence rate of burnout in Malang and the association between sociodemographic factors, occupational hazards, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS). The associations were presented as odds ratio (<italic>OR</italic>) and 95% confidence interval (<italic>CI</italic>).</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>We analyzed 1,077 health professionals in Malang. Our result showed that the prevalence of burnout among health professionals in Malang is 22.0%. Respondents under the age of 30 tend to experience a higher level of burnout by 3.4-fold (<italic>OR</italic> = 3.43, <italic>p</italic>-value &lt; 0.001), compared with those over the age of 40 years. Our data showed that respondents working longer than 100 h/week tend to experience burnout by 3.8-fold (<italic>OR</italic> = 3.83, <italic>p</italic>-value &lt; 0.001).</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Approximately one-fifth of the health professionals in Malang suffered from burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic, and MBI-HSS subscales are strongly associated with age and work hours.</p></sec>