AUTHOR=Hailu Seyoum , Gurmu Mesfin , Husen Gose , Tesfaye Adamu , Muleta Birhanu , Yeshitila Henok , Bekele Belayneh 

TITLE=Burnout Among Health Professionals Working in Intensive Care Units of Southern Ethiopia: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study

JOURNAL=International Journal of Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 70 - 2025

YEAR=2025

URL=https://www.ssph-journal.org/journals/international-journal-of-public-health/articles/10.3389/ijph.2025.1608337

DOI=10.3389/ijph.2025.1608337

ISSN=1661-8564

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Objective</title><p>This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of burnout among health professionals working in intensive care units.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>After receiving ethical clearance from the institutional review board of Dilla University College of Health Sciences with protocol unique number <italic>duirb/033/23-05</italic>, a multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted. Binary and multivariate logistic regressions were used to assess the relationship between burnout syndrome as dependent and various personal job factors as independent factors.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>The overall prevalence of BOS among HCPs working in the selected university hospitals of southern Ethiopia is 38.1%. Health professionals who worked at night duty were 4.15 times more likely to be in a state of burnout as compared to those who were on day duty shift [AOR = 4.15, 95%CI (1.27–13.58)].</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Burnout is a great public health concern. Age, marital status, workload, working the night shift, fear of patient death, less quipped setup, and absence of extra-time duty payment were among the predictive variables.</p></sec>