• Asimenia Ntantana, Dimitrios Matamis, Savvoula Savvidou, Maria Giannakou, Mary Gouva, George Nakos, and Vasilios Koulouras.
• ICU "Papageorgiou" General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece.
• Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2017 Aug 1; 41: 11-17.

ObjectivesTo investigate if burnout in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is influenced by aspects of personality, religiosity and job satisfaction.Research MethodologyCross-sectional study, designed to assess burnout in the ICU and to investigate possible determinants. Three different questionnaires were used: the Malach Burnout Inventory, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and the Spiritual/Religious Attitudes Questionnaire. Predicting factors for high burnout were identified by multivariate logistic regression analysis.Setting/ParticipantsThis national study was addressed to physicians and nurses working full-time in 18 Greek ICU departments from June to December 2015.ResultsThe participation rate was 67.9% (n=149) and 65% (n=320) for ICU physicians and nurses, respectively). High job satisfaction was recorded in both doctors (80.8%) and nurses (63.4%). Burnout was observed in 32.8% of the study participants, higher in nurses compared to doctors (p<0.001). Multivariate analysis revealed that neuroticism was a positive and extraversion a negative predictor of exhaustion (OR 5.1, 95%CI 2.7-9.7, p<0.001 and OR 0.49, 95%CI 0.28-0.87, p=0.014, respectively). Moreover, three other factors were identified: Job satisfaction (OR 0.26, 95%CI 0.14-0.48, p<0.001), satisfaction with current End-of-Life care (OR 0.41, 95%CI 0.23-0.76, p=0.005) and isolation feelings after decisions to forego life sustaining treatments (OR 3.48, 95%CI 1.25-9.65, p=0.017).ConclusionsPersonality traits, job satisfaction and the way End-of-Life care is practiced influence burnout in the ICU.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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