Navigating Stress and Burnout: Exploring Workload Impact on Healthcare Workers in Saudi Arabia 2022

Abstract

Background: As health care workers face a wide range of psychosocial stressors, they are at a high risk of developing burnout syndrome, which in turn may affect hospital outcomes such as the quality and safety of provided care. Stress in the workplace is globally considered a risk factor for workers’ health and safety. More specifically, the health care sector is a constantly changing environment, and the working conditions in hospitals are increasingly becoming demanding and stressful. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “a healthy workplace is one in which workers and managers collaborate to use a continual improvement process to protect and promote the health, safety and well- being of all workers and the sustainability of workplace. All health care workers, regardless of their specialization it is a stressful and arduous profession career, many factors in the work environment contribute to this. Shortage of nurses is one of those factors that make hospitals and primary health care short staffed and increases on nurses and medical doctor's workload and also quality of Patient and healthcare worker outcomes also patient care, as well as health care workers. Aim of the study: To assessment the Influencing of Burnout and Workload among Health Care Workers the Moderating Role of Job Control on outcomes at Saudi Arabia 2022. Methods: Cross-sectional study was carried out; including a random sample of health care workers at Saudi Arabia a self-administered validated questionnaire was adopted and modified. The Sample size of medical practitioners. Our total participants were (200). Result: description of the relation of influencing of heavy of elements of Workloads on Patient and healthcare workers Outcomes variables the most of participants high influencing of heavy of elements of workloads were (48.0%) followed by average were (31.0%) but weak were (21.0%) while heave a significant relation were P-value <0.001 and X2 22.36. Conclusion: This study showed the importance for l managers to carry out management practices that promote job control and provide employees with job resources, in order to reduce the burnout risk.