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BURNOUT SYNDROME AMONG HOSPITAL PHARMACISTS IN ROMANIA

MAGDALENA IORGA 1, CORINA DONDAS 2, LASZLO-ZOLTAN SZTANKOVSZKY 3*, IOAN ANTOFIE 4

1.Department of Behavioural Sciences, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania
2 .Department of Career Counselling, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iași, Romania
3 .Department of Preventive Medicine and Interdisciplinarity,”Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Iași, Romania
4 .Head-Hospital Pharmacist, “CF” University Clinical Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
*corresponding author: sztankovszky@yahoo.com

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The purpose of the study was to identify the level of burnout among hospital pharmacists in Romania, relative to socio-demographic characteristics, psychological data and personality traits. 78 hospital pharmacists completed a document with socio-demographic characteristics and personal data, and filled in two psychological instruments. “The Big Five Inventory” was applied to identify the personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, consciousness, openness and neuroticism) and the “Maslach Burnout Inventory” was used to measure the level of burnout for emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and personal achievement. Data were processed using SPSS Statistics v23.0.0. A moderate level of burnout was identified for emotional exhaustion (17.17 ± 10.40), a low level for depersonalization (4.66 ± 4.31) and an average level of burnout for personal achievement (32.54 ± 8.73), this third dimension being influenced by all five personality traits. 18.66% of pharmacists presented a high level of emotional exhaustion, 26% of subjects suffered from a chronic disease, 7% from depression, 23.1% from insomnia and 9% took pills to cope with stress. Burnout is influenced by personality traits and psychological factors. The relationship with socio-demographic factors was analysed. Results are important for hospital pharmacists to find ways to cope with burnout.