Aspirantskiy Vestnik PovolzhiyaAspirantskiy Vestnik Povolzhiya2072-23542410-3764Samara State Medical University10626410.55531/2072-2354.2022.22.1.4-8Research ArticleOccupational factors inducing the burnout syndrome in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemicSazonovaOlga V.<p>PhD, Associate professor, Head of the Department of Food hygiene with the course of hygiene of children and adolescents</p>o.v.sazonova@samsmu.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4130-492XGavryushinMikhail Yu.<p>PhD, Associate professor, Department of Food hygiene with the course of hygiene of children and adolescents</p>m.yu.gavryushin@samsmu.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0897-7700KuvshinovaNataliya Yu.<p>PhD, Associate professor, Department of Pedagogy, psychology and psycholinguistics</p>n.yu.kuvshinova@samsmu.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0780-7336OstryakovaNataliya A.<p>resident of the Department of Occupational diseases and clinical pharmacology n.a. professor V.V. Kosarev</p>kosm-90@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5459-691XBabanovSergei A.<p>PhD, Professor, Head of the Department of Occupational diseases and clinical pharmacology n.a. professor V.V. Kosarev</p>s.a.babanov@samsmu.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1667-737XSamara State Medical University15022022221481404202219052022Copyright © 2022, Sazonova O.V., Gavryushin M.Y., Kuvshinova N.Y., Ostryakova N.A., Babanov S.A.2022<p><strong><em>Aim </em></strong> to analyze the severity of burnout syndrome in healthcare workers, to study the correlations between professional risk factors and the emotional burnout in medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
<p><strong><em>Material and methods. </em></strong>The study groups included healthcare workers of different institutions: workers from COVID hospitals (n=201), outpatient polyclinics (n=186), medical workers of multidisciplinary hospitals (n=195); the control group consisted of 190 healthy persons of other professions. The study participants were interviewed using the questionnaire of V.V. Boyko "Diagnosis of the level of emotional burnout" which consists of 84 questions, in order to identify their attitude to the COVID-19 pandemic situation.</p>
<p><strong><em>Results. </em></strong>A high level of emotional burnout was revealed in the general sample of medical workers when compared to the control group. The more pronounced signs of emotional distress: tension, resistance, exhaustion were found in medical workers of COVID hospitals in comparison with medical workers of multidisciplinary hospitals and outpatient clinics. The potential professional risk factors for emotional burnout in healthcare personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic were: high workload, introduced restrictive measures, fear of illness, lack and shortage of PPE, the threat and risk of contacting the new coronavirus infection, a long period of isolation, financial instability, insufficient (at the beginning) knowledge about the new little-studied disease, a feeling of discrimination and / or stigmatization.</p>professional burnouthealthcare workersэмоциональное выгораниемедицинские работники