Job Burnout Among Health Practitioners at Jazan Region in Light of Some Variables

Document Type : Original Article

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Psychologist at King Fahd Hospital Master of Counseling Psychology Jazan - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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   The study aimed to identify the level of job burnout (axes and total score), and to investigate the effect of gender, number of years of experience, and the nature of work on job burnout among health practitioners in the Jazan region. The descriptive approach was used, as the study sample consisted of (403) health practitioners in the Jazan region. Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To achieve the objectives of the study, the Maslach scale, consisting of (21) items, was used.
The results showed a high level of emotional stress, a feeling of low personal accomplishment, and the job burnout, while there was a low level of loss of the human element. The results also showed that there were statistically significant differences between males and females in (loss of the human element, feeling of low personal accomplishment, and the total score of job burnout) in favor of males, while there were no statistically significant differences between males and females in the axis of emotional stress. There was also statistically significant differences in job burnout (axes and total score) due to the number of years of experience. There was also statistically significant differences in job burnout (axes and total score) due to the nature of work among health practitioners in the Jazan region.

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