RESEARCH ARTICLE
Spiritual Well-being and Burnout among Saudi Nurses in Intensive Care Units
Dalyal Nader Al-Osaimi1, *, Afaf Khulaeef Al-Onazi2, Noora Mohammed Saad Al-Khammash3, Nadyah Farhan Al-Shakarah4, Maryam Khalaf Al-Rashidi2, Hind Mobark Al-Shamry3
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2023Volume: 17
E-location ID: e187443462303270
Publisher ID: e187443462303270
DOI: 10.2174/18744346-v17-2305300-2022-160
Article History:
Received Date: 24/10/2022Revision Received Date: 09/01/2023
Acceptance Date: 11/01/2023
Electronic publication date: 06/06/2023
Collection year: 2023
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Increased nurse shortages impose compounded challenges on intensive care unit staff in delivering high-quality care by causing possible burnout and an intention to leave the unit. Fostering spiritual health among intensive care nurses might serve as a prophylaxis for high burnout levels.
Aim:
This study explores the relationship between burnout levels and spiritual well-being among Saudi intensive care unit nurses.
Methods:
This study adopted a quantitative cross-sectional research design and enrolled 226 intensive care unit nurses using purposive sampling via electronic invitations.
Results:
Saudi intensive care unit nurses had a good spiritual well-being score (80.29 ± 5.25) and an above-average Maslach burnout scale score (3.72 ± 1.00). Burnout and spiritual well-being were negatively and significantly correlated (P = 0.00).
Conclusion:
Increased burnout among ICU nurses may be avoided by improved spiritual health, which may also be used as a prophylactic intervention to reduce burnout rates.