One in three nursing home employees who care for residents with a corona infection suffers from burnout complaints. Sickness absence among nursing home employees is also increasing slightly, according to research by the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) and the University Network for Elderly Care. About seventeen hundred healthcare workers took part in the survey.
At the end of last year, the first measurement moment of the survey showed that a large number of employees suffer from depressive complaints (19 percent) or burnout complaints (22 percent).
It now appears that an increasing number of employees who care for infected residents are struggling with burnout (31 percent) and depressive complaints (27 percent). These percentages are lower for employees without direct contact with infected residents (burnout 22 percent, depressive complaints 21 percent).
“Energy guzzlers such as a high workload, gripping emotional situations and having to make difficult decisions add extra burden and work stress,” says lead researcher Sarah Janus of the UMCG. According to her, these factors can ultimately result in mental health problems, as the survey shows.
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