The Covıd-19 Pandemıc As A Psychosocıal Rısk Factor Of Employee Safety: A Revıew Of Graduate Thesıs On Burnout

SUMMARY

Introduction: The effect of psychosocial risk factors, which is an important problem of employee health and safety, on healthcare workers continues to increase in severity with the COVID-19 pandemic. Many factors such as healthcare professionals working actively with patients infected with COVID-19 in high-risk environments, trying to provide quality healthcare with limited personal protective equipment, and fears of transmitting the infection cause high levels of burnout.

Purpose: This study aims to review the burnout of health workers during the pandemic process in our country in postgraduate thesis studies and to examine theses systematically.Method:The theses to be included in the study were reached through the National Thesis Center Database of the Council of Higher Education. After scanning the system with the keywords "covid, pandemic, epidemic, coronavirus", each list was scanned again with the keyword "exhausted". 26 theses that met the inclusion criteria were evaluated. Results: 61.5% of theses are master's thesis and 38.5% of them are medical specialization thesis. Theses related to the subject were mostly conducted in the Departments of Family Medicine (19.2%), Nursing (19.2%) and Psychology (Clinical Psychology) (23.1%). In 92.3% of the theses, quantitative methods were used, the "Maslach Burnout Scale" was used frequently and the data were obtained online. Four different categories were determined regarding the data. These; “The level of burnout” in healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic process, “the effect of burnout level on nutrition and sleep status”, “evaluation of burnout level with psychological parameters” and “effect of burnout level on occupational motivation”.

Conclusion: Healthcare workers are at serious risk in terms of psychosocial hazards within the scope of employee health and safety during the pandemic process. The burnout they experienced especially during the pandemic process; affects their quality of life, physical and mental health, family and work life negatively.