Workplace Environment and Burn Out in Public Health Workforce Inspection Services in Greece During Covid 19 Pandemic

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Authors

Ioannis Adamopoulos¹ , Niki Syrou²

1. European University Cyprus
2. University Of Thessaly

Conference / event

International One Health Conference, September 2022 (Catania, Italy)

Poster summary

The aim of this study was to report the burnout of the Public Health workforce in Greece and investigate possible relationships with the workplace environment, during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Greece. Methods: This is a quantitative, cross-sectional, nationwide research study. The response rate was 27%. Results: 19.46% of participants reported low levels, 37.84% of participants medium, and 42.70% have high (above average) burnout levels. Burnout total score of rural environment was higher compared to all other groups (χ2= 16.017), (β=0.455), p<0.001. Medium levels of Emotional exhaustion score were reported. Levels of depersonalization score were low. Personal Accomplishment in rural environments was higher than in all other groups (χ2= 26.417). Depersonalization of the semi-urban environments was higher than in all other groups (χ2= 6.188). Conclusion: Adding new information to OSH for the workplace environment could be exploited to advance the quality of Public Health Services provision during COVID-19 Pandemic in Greece.

Keywords

Public health workforce, Workplace environments, Burnout, Occupational health, COVID-19 pandemic

Research areas

Environmental Engineering, Medicine, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Environmental Sciences

References

1. www.onehealthconference.it
2. http://onehealthconference.it/
3. http://onehealthconference.it/program-2/

Funding

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Additional information

Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Creative Commons license

Copyright © 2022 Adamopoulos et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.