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 Volume 9, Issue 9 (September 2022), Pages: 96-104

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 Original Research Paper

 Nurses’ stress, anxiety, depression, and burnout in the workplace: A correlational study

 Author(s): Alfredo Z. Feliciano 1, Evelyn E. Feliciano 1, *, Sharifa Al-Asiry 2, Delma Joie D. Magtubo 1, Warlito S. Reyes 1, Evangeline C. Bautista 1, Bianca Margarita T. Santiango 1, Rochelle G. Gumabon 1

 Affiliation(s):

 1College of Nursing and Graduate Studies, Angeles University Foundation, Angeles, Philippines
 2Department of Nursing, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, Al Majmaah, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9120-1534

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.09.012

 Abstract:

Nursing burnout has been linked to stress, anxiety, and depression. Increased stress and anxiety have been closely related to burnout. This study's major goal has been to determine the association of these variables in the context of nursing practice. This descriptive correlational study aimed at determining the relationship between stress, anxiety, and depression with burnout among the 307 purposive nurse samples from participating government and private hospitals in Manila, Pampanga, and Tarlac, Philippines collected between March and June 2020 using a 21-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) and a 16-item Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI) instruments. Mostly with a normal level of stress, anxiety, and depression, the nurses had been also found to have a moderate level of overall burnout and were moderately disengaged, and exhausted. Using IBM SPSS v.26, the study utilized Pearson product-moment correlation which found that nurses’ stress had significant relationships (p=.000) with burnout, disengagement, and exhaustion; anxiety to burnout, disengagement, and exhaustion; and depression with burnout, disengagement, and exhaustion. The degree of stress, anxiety, and depression has significantly shown direct correspondence which calls for a deeper examination of sources and factors. Nurses' experience of burnout is associated with the service-oriented features of the profession. The emphasis is on the need for treatments to guarantee that burnout does not lead to higher staff turnover, degraded health care, decreased productivity, and decreased professional fulfillment. A systems approach to burnout prevention and treatment should investigate the relevant factors that are addressed in the organizational, group, and individual efforts. This study offers a remarkable hypothetical underpinning for nurses' ability to handle stressful workplace situations with resilience and professionalism.

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Anxiety, Burnout, Depression, Nursing staff, Patient care, Workplace

 Article History: Received 23 March 2022, Received in revised form 13 June 2022, Accepted 14 June 2022

 Acknowledgment 

All authors would like to express their gratitude to the nurses working in the participating institutions of the study either in Philippine private and non-private institutions, who voluntarily and willingly participated in this study and to the support given by the Angeles University Foundation in the development of this scholar work.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained with the nurses’ right to anonymity, confidentiality, and refusal without being penalized upon study withdrawal.

 Ethical consideration: 

The protocol of this study was submitted and reviewed by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hafr Al Batin with approval no. 12 dated 24th February 2020 under a committee registration KACST No. H-05-FT-083. Respondents were informed of the study's purpose and its nature before informed consent is obtained with their right to anonymity, confidentiality, and refusal without being penalized once decided to withdraw at any time in the study. 

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Feliciano AZ, Feliciano EE, and Al-Asiry S et al. (2022). Nurses’ stress, anxiety, depression, and burnout in the workplace: A correlational study. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(9): 96-104

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