The Complexity of Burnout Experiences among Care Aides: A Person-Oriented Approach to Burnout Patterns
Care aides working in nursing homes experience burnout attributed to various workplace stressors. Burnout dimensions (exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy) interact to form distinct burnout patterns. Using a person-oriented approach, we aimed to identify burnout patterns among car...
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| author | Yinfei Duan Yuting Song Trina E. Thorne Alba Iaconi Peter G. Norton Carole A. Estabrooks |
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| description | Care aides working in nursing homes experience burnout attributed to various workplace stressors. Burnout dimensions (exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy) interact to form distinct burnout patterns. Using a person-oriented approach, we aimed to identify burnout patterns among care aides and to examine their association with individual and job-related factors. This was a cross-sectional, secondary analysis of the Translating Research in Elder Care 2019–2020 survey data collected from 3765 care aides working in Canadian nursing homes. We used Maslach Burnout Inventory to assess burnout and performed latent profile analysis to identify burnout patterns, then examined their associations with other factors. We identified an <i>engaged</i> pattern (43.2% of the care aide sample) with low exhaustion and cynicism and high professional efficacy; an <i>overwhelmed but accomplished</i> pattern (38.5%) with high levels of the three dimensions; two intermediate patterns—a <i>tired and ineffective</i> pattern (2.4%) and a <i>tired but effective</i> pattern (15.8%). The <i>engaged</i> group reported the most favorable scores on work environment, work-life experiences, and health, whereas the <i>tired and ineffective</i> group reported the least favorable scores. The findings suggest complex experiences of burnout among care aides and call for tailored interventions to distinct burnout patterns. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9c444eb22fa14819a8faf8c30f7e11fc2023-11-17T19:27:08ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322023-04-01118114510.3390/healthcare11081145The Complexity of Burnout Experiences among Care Aides: A Person-Oriented Approach to Burnout PatternsYinfei Duan0Yuting Song1Trina E. Thorne2Alba Iaconi3Peter G. Norton4Carole A. Estabrooks5Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, CanadaFaculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, CanadaFaculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, CanadaFaculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, CanadaDepartment of Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, CanadaFaculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1C9, CanadaCare aides working in nursing homes experience burnout attributed to various workplace stressors. Burnout dimensions (exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced professional efficacy) interact to form distinct burnout patterns. Using a person-oriented approach, we aimed to identify burnout patterns among care aides and to examine their association with individual and job-related factors. This was a cross-sectional, secondary analysis of the Translating Research in Elder Care 2019–2020 survey data collected from 3765 care aides working in Canadian nursing homes. We used Maslach Burnout Inventory to assess burnout and performed latent profile analysis to identify burnout patterns, then examined their associations with other factors. We identified an <i>engaged</i> pattern (43.2% of the care aide sample) with low exhaustion and cynicism and high professional efficacy; an <i>overwhelmed but accomplished</i> pattern (38.5%) with high levels of the three dimensions; two intermediate patterns—a <i>tired and ineffective</i> pattern (2.4%) and a <i>tired but effective</i> pattern (15.8%). The <i>engaged</i> group reported the most favorable scores on work environment, work-life experiences, and health, whereas the <i>tired and ineffective</i> group reported the least favorable scores. The findings suggest complex experiences of burnout among care aides and call for tailored interventions to distinct burnout patterns.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/8/1145burnoutcare aidesnursing homeslong-term carequality of work-lifeperson-oriented approach |
| spellingShingle | Yinfei Duan Yuting Song Trina E. Thorne Alba Iaconi Peter G. Norton Carole A. Estabrooks The Complexity of Burnout Experiences among Care Aides: A Person-Oriented Approach to Burnout Patterns Healthcare burnout care aides nursing homes long-term care quality of work-life person-oriented approach |
| title | The Complexity of Burnout Experiences among Care Aides: A Person-Oriented Approach to Burnout Patterns |
| title_full | The Complexity of Burnout Experiences among Care Aides: A Person-Oriented Approach to Burnout Patterns |
| title_fullStr | The Complexity of Burnout Experiences among Care Aides: A Person-Oriented Approach to Burnout Patterns |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Complexity of Burnout Experiences among Care Aides: A Person-Oriented Approach to Burnout Patterns |
| title_short | The Complexity of Burnout Experiences among Care Aides: A Person-Oriented Approach to Burnout Patterns |
| title_sort | complexity of burnout experiences among care aides a person oriented approach to burnout patterns |
| topic | burnout care aides nursing homes long-term care quality of work-life person-oriented approach |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/11/8/1145 |
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