Burnout and depression in nurses: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Nurses work in stressful and demanding settings and often suffer from depression and burnout. Despite overlapping symptoms, research has been inconclusive regarding the discriminant validity of measures of burnout with regard to measures of depression. Such inconclusive discriminant validity might c...

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Published in:International journal of nursing studies 2021-12, Vol.124, p.104099, Article 104099
Main Authors: Chen, Chiahui, Meier, Scott T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Burnout
Burnout, Professional
Burnout, Psychological
Correlation coefficient
Depression
Discriminant validity
Distinctiveness
Emotions
Fatigue
Humans
Mental depression
Meta-analysis
Moderator
Moderators
Nurses
Occupational stress
Occupations
Path analysis
Systematic review
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Summary:Nurses work in stressful and demanding settings and often suffer from depression and burnout. Despite overlapping symptoms, research has been inconclusive regarding the discriminant validity of measures of burnout with regard to measures of depression. Such inconclusive discriminant validity might cause clinicians to fail to recognize and manage depression separately from burnout. This meta-analysis aimed to clarify the distinctiveness of burnout as a separate construct by examining the size of the relationship between burnout and depression among nurses as well as potential moderators. A stepwise method was used by searching 4 databases (PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and EMBASE) to retrieve published papers in English examining the relationship between burnout and depression among nurses and reporting the effect sizes of their findings. We identified a total of 37 eligible studies. The pooled estimate showed a positive association between burnout and depression among nurses (r = 0.403, 95% CI [0.327, 0.474], p 
ISSN:0020-7489
1873-491X
DOI:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.104099