• Morufat A Alabi, Adeyinka G Ishola, Adenike C Onibokun, and Victor O Lasebikan.
• Department of Nursing, College Of medicine, University of Ibadan. Ibadan, Nigeria.
• Afr Health Sci. 2021 Sep 1; 21 (3): 1428-1439.

BackgroundBurnout remains a huge public health problem among nurses.MethodsA cross-sectional descriptive study assessed 259 nurses from two Neuropsychiatric hospitals in Nigeria. Data was collected using a sociodemographic/ job related questionnaire, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and the Short-Form health survey (SF-12). The associations between sociodemographic characteristic and burnout was anaysed using Chi square test, between burnout and quality of life using Spearman correlation statistics. Predictors of burnout were determined using binary regression analysis.ResultsPrevalence of emotional exhaustion (EE) was 44.4%, depersonalization (DEP) 31.7% and reduced personal accomplishment was 98.8%. Predictors of EE were: poor funding from management, OR = 0.38 (95% CI 0.15-0.95) and role conflict, OR = 2.44 (95% CI 1.03-5.78), while the predictors of DEP, were age group, 31-40 years, OR = 0.37 (95% CI 0.18-0.77), male gender, OR = 2.55 (95% CI 1.40-4.65), role conflict, OR = 6.53 (95% CI 0.88-7.81) and working at more urban city, OR = 3.07 (95% CI 1.54-6.16). The mean total Quality of life (QOL) scores were significantly higher among respondents who had no EE and DEP p < 0.001.ConclusionBurnout is high among mental health nurses and is associated with poor quality of life.© 2021 Alabi MA et al.

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