Burnout and Resilience in Psychiatric Hospital Care-givers: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Mediation and Path Analyses.
This study is a re-analysis of the data from an earlier study to examine the predictors of burnout in psychiatric hospital patient care providers. The research question in the original study was related to the prevalence of post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in psychiatric hospital care workers and their relationships to resilience, compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress and burnout. PTSS are symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that may or may not reach the level of a clinical diagnosis of PTSD.
A number of other studies also examined the role of resilience and burnout, but none contained all three variables, i.e., PTSD or secondary traumatic stress symptoms, resilience, and burnout. So, it is difficult to validate the finding that there are two separate paths (identified in this study as relationship series 1 and 2) with respect to burnout. Most of these other studies observed that resilience appears to act as a mediator between burnout and personality traits or general health.
With respect to the non-significant relationship between resilience and PTSS or STS, one possibility is that the resilience of the sample was inadequate to have a protective effect or that the range of scores was too narrow.
Aside from the usual limitations of non-randomized nonexperimental survey-based research, two additional limitation of the study exist. This factor could have affected the reliability of the data and consequently the validity of the results. However, the scales with the greatest deviation from published literature were the CCPAI.
Public Health Open J. 2018; 3(1): 20- 28. doi: 10.17140/PHOJ-3-126
