ArticleFrontiers in public health2022
Occupational Burnout and Productivity Loss: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Academic University Staff.
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- The mediating role of burnout in the association between occupational stress and health-related productivity loss.Industrial health · 2025Article
- Workplace Mental Health Status Among Academic Staff: Psychological Distress, Burnout, and Organisational Culture at a South African University.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Burnout Syndrome Among Dental Students in Clinical Training: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study in Ecuador.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Neural Correlates of Burnout Syndrome Based on Electroencephalography (EEG)-A Mechanistic Review and Discussion of Burnout Syndrome Cognitive Bias Theory.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Insomnia and depression in Chinese academic researchers: mediation by anxiety and resilience with differences among researchers by educational level.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The job performance and job burnout relationship: a panel data comparison of four groups of academics' job performance.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Burnout has been endorsed with serious negative health- and work-related outcomes. This study is aimed to assess the prevalence of burnout and its association with work productivity among academic staff. Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 240 academic staff working at a public university in Egypt. Participants were invited to complete a web-based questionnaire involving basic personal, health, and work-related characteristics. Besides, Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS) was used to assess occupational burnout dimensions (i.e., emotional exhaustion "EE," depersonalization "DP," and personal accomplishment "PA"), while work productivity was assessed with the Health and Work Performance Questionnaire (HPQ). Results: In total, 28% of respondents scored high in EE [95% confidence interval (CI): 22.5-33.8%], 18.3% high in DP (95% CI: 13.8-3.6%), and 88.3% scored low in PA (95% CI: 83.8-91.9%). Seventy percent of respondents scored high in only one burnout dimension, 21.7% scored high in two dimensions, while 7.1% scored high in all three dimensions. Multivariable analysis showed that EE was the only burnout dimension that showed a statistically significant association between absenteeism and presenteeism rates. The absenteeism rates among respondents with moderate and high EE were 2.1 and 3.3 times the rates among those with low EE, respectively. Likewise, the presenteeism rates among respondents with moderate and high EE were 2.4 and 4.7 times the rates among those with low EE, respectively. Conclusions: Academic staff showed a high prevalence of at least one burnout dimension. Moderate and high EE scores were significantly associated with increased productivity loss when compared to low EE.
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