| Objective To investigate the status and influencing factors of occupational burnout and quality of life for falculties in Shanxi Medical University and to explore the relationship between occupational burnout and quality of life. Based on this, some suggestions to alleviate or overcome falculties'burnout and to improve their quality of life can be provided.Methods Three hundred and sixty teachers were randomly selected from Shanxi Medical University. Teachers Burnout Inventory and WHO-QOL-BREF were used to measure the occupational burnout and quality of life, respectively. Socio-demographic, working, and health factors were also collected. Multiple stepwise regression analysis was used to identify significant factors related to the three dimension (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and low achievement sense) scores of the occupational burnout and four domain (physical, psychological, social and environmental) scores of WHOQOL-BREF. The relationship between occupational burnout and quality of life was measured by canonical correlation analysis.Results1. Scores of emotional exhaustion, low sense of achievement and depersonalization for occupational burnout in the three dimensions and total were 17.00±4.86,11.59±3.09,5.60±2.34, and 33.85±8.27, respectively. For emotional exhaustion scores of TBI, grant stress, whether job recognized by the leaders, workload increase regardless of the individual wishes, degree of satisfaction with status and titles, whether he/she likes teaching, whether the greatest satisfaction from teaching or scientific research achievement, getting on with students were the significant factors. Whether job recognized by the leaders, teaching evaluation from colleagues, getting on with students or leaders, asking for help from friends in face of problems were the predictive factors for the low sense of achievement scores of TBI. In the depersonalization score, gender, getting on with students, whether he/she likes teaching, job prospect, grant stress, asking for help from parents in face of problems were the predictive factors.2. Scores in four domains of QOL of teachers in Shanxi Medical University were 14.05±2.04 (physical),13.38±2.14 (psychological),14.05±2.38 (social) and 11.58±2.46 (environmental), respectively. For the physical domain of QOL, health status, satisfaction with his/her major, getting on with his/her leaders, hobbies, isolation feeling in work, asking for help from parents or leaders in face of problems, sleeping time every day, and adaptation to the current job were the significant factors. In the psychological domain, hobbies, satisfaction with his/her major, degree of satisfaction with current status and titles, job prospect, asking for help from colleagues or others in face of problems, job satisfaction from self-mature, teaching evaluation from colleagues, living conditions, and reasonable income deduction were the predictive factors. Getting on with his/her leaders, satisfaction with his/her major, health status, hobbies, asking for help from parents or leaders or others in face of problems, national grant research experience, and thinking mature in progress of work were the predictive factors for the social domain of QOL. Finally, the predictors for the environmental domain of QOL were living conditions, job prospect, satisfaction with the current income, years of teaching, sleeping time every day, reasonable income deduction, satisfaction with his/her major, degree of satisfaction with current status and titles, interpersonal relationship and management ability in progress of work.3. The scores of occupation burnout were negatively correlated with those of quality of life. The higher scores of emotional exhaustion and low sense of achievement for burnout, the lower scores of physical, psychological, and social domains for QOL.Conclusion Occupational burnout for teachers in Shanxi Medical University was not serious and it was related with getting on with students, whether he/she likes teaching, whether job recognized by the leaders, workload increase regardless of the individual wishes, grant stress, and teaching evaluation from colleagues. The status of QOL for teachers in Shanxi Medical University was better and it was correlated with health status, satisfaction with his/her major, getting on with the leaders, hobbies, degree of satisfaction with current status and titles, and job prospect. Strategies to alleviate teachers' burnout and to improve their quality of life can be formulated based this. |
