Relationship between burnout and resilience of nurses at a private hospital in Indonesia

Abstract

Objective

This study aimed to analyze the relationship between burnout and resilience of nurses at one private hospital in Indonesia.

Method

This was a quantitative correlational design with 120 nurses as the sample. This study used Maslach burnout questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha 0.826) and resilience questionnaire by Barr (Cronbach's alpha above 0.895). Data were collected in March 2019 and were analyzed with Pearson test. This study conducted both univariate and bivariate analyses.

Results

This study revealed that almost two third of nurses, experienced burnout as reduced personal accomplishment (70%), yet had resilience as optimism (88.33%). This study revealed that there was a significant relationship between nurses’ burnout and resilience with low correlation coefficient (p value = 0.011 and r = 0.232).

Conclusion

It is noted that nurses’ burnout is related to their resilience. Further exploration on how to increase nurses’ resilience for addressing nurses’ burnout is expected.