Effectiveness of stress and burnout management training for employees of an industrial company

Abstract

Introduction

Burnout is a state of physical and emotional exhaustion. It can occur when people experience long-term stress in job, or when they have worked in a physically or emotionally draining role for a long time. There have been numerous studies done showing the results of stress and burnout in the employee's profession across many areas of health care.

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of stress and burnout management training on employees using experimental method to help employees to understand available resources and help them find better ways to manage stress in the workplace.

Aims

This study aims to discusses how organizations can assist in combating stress in ways that benefit both the employees involved and the organization itself.

Method

A curriculum-based intervention was developed to provide education in a classroom setting. The sample included 14 nurses with various nursing backgrounds who were selected randomly and were assigned randomly in two experimental and control groups, which contained 7 employees in each group. The experimental group received the training while the control group was in waiting list. The instruments were the General Health Questionnaire and Burnout Checklist, and demographic questionnaire. Data was analyzed by covariance analysis method.

Results

Result indicated that stress and burnout management training was efficient on reducing stress and burnout symptoms in employee.

Conclusion

It is concluded that stress and burnout management training is an effective group intervening method for reducing the dysfunctional effects of stress and job burnout in employees.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.