SynthesisBMC public health2025
The impact of health emergencies on nurses' burnout: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Factors associated with work-life balance among emergency physicians, nurses, and paramedics: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Determinants of Nurses' Work Motivation in the Context of Sustainable Human Resource Management: A Study in a University Clinical Hospital in Poland.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Quiet Quitting and Professional Burnout: Contemporary Challenges for Nursing Leadership.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Factors associated with the chronicization of psychological responses and intention to stay among nurses 18 months after the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Perceived organisational support, psychological resilience and turnover intention among hospital nurses: mediation and network analyses.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Burnout, PTSD, and Medical Error: The Medico-Legal Implications of the Mental Health Crisis Among Frontline Healthcare Professionals During COVID-19.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Burnout, resilience, and cardiometabolic phenotype in an academic medical faculty: an integrated cross-sectional assessment from the United Arab Emirates.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2026Article
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- Enhancing resilience of nursing education during war: policy implications from a qualitative study.Israel journal of health policy research · 2025Article
- From Burnout to Resilience: Addressing Moral Injury in Nursing Through Organizational Innovation in the Post-Pandemic Era.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Investigating Factors Affecting the Nursing Shortage During the First and Acute Phase of COVID-19: A Systematic Review.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchReview
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Abstract
backgroundBurnout is a prevalent occupational phenomenon among healthcare workers. To evaluate the current evidence on nurses' burnout and the impact of turnover intention during the pandemic is imperative.
objectiveWe aimed to comprehensively synthesize and quantify the impact of health emergencies caused by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak on nurses' burnout and identify factors associated with the negative impact.
methodsSystematic searches were conducted in PubMed, Web of Science, EBSCO (ASP), Cochrane Library, and supplemented by a manual search, for publications from December 2019 to February 2023.
resultsA total of 176 articles involving 110,316 nurses were identified. The overall pooled estimate of the prevalence of burnout was 48% (95% confidence interval [CI] 42-55%). The mean score for overall burnout on the 22-item (7-point) Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was 59.83 (95% CI 49.33 to 70.34). In the work environment, nurses who were exposed to COVID-19 (SMD 0.19, 95% CI 0.04 to 0.33) or worked in emergency departments and ICUs (SMD 0.10, 95% CI 0.06 to 0.14) scored higher for burnout compared to those in general wards. In the presence of increased burnout, overall burnout in nurses was associated with a sevenfold increase in depression (OR 7.40, 95% CI 3.82 to 14.35), a fourfold increase in anxiety (OR 4.14, 95% CI 2.15 to 7.98) and stress (OR 4.60, 95% CI 2.31 to 9.17), and a fourfold increase in low resilience (OR 4.06, 95% CI 2.13 to 7.76) in mental health outcomes. As burnout increased, turnover intention was nearly four times as likely compared with retention (OR 3.55, 95% CI 1.73 to 7.28), and it was related to the quality of care.
conclusionThe results of this meta-analysis indicate that half of the nurses experienced burnout during the COVID-19. Nurses' burnout is associated with the sustainability of healthcare organizations. Healthcare organizations and societies should invest more time and effort in implementing evidence-based strategies to mitigate nurses' burnout across specialties, especially in emergency medicine and for younger nurses in specialized departments, to better prepare for future public health emergencies.
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