The prevalence, related factors, and burnout levels among primary health care nurses in elderly care settings

Abstract

Background: Primary healthcare nursing denotes the valuable healthcare component services delivered to varied patient groups. Burnout is a persistent challenge for the healthcare professionals assigned primary roles in different settings. The burnout emerges in the execution of geriatric care in primary care settings. Aim: To establish the prevalence, varied factors related, and burnout levels in PHC nurses Methodology: A systematic review was conducted. A search was conducted on PubMed, MEDLINE Complete, Cochrane Library, and ScienceDirect. PRISMA Flow Chart guided the screening and selection of studies against predetermined eligibility criteria. ROBINS-I Tool facilitated the quality assessment of the studies and data extraction done in a matrix. A synthesis of the studies generated the key themes of the systematic review Results: The search generated 757 studies. The principal themes from the ten included studies were prevalence of burnout in PHC nurses offering geriatric care, factors, and levels of burnout in PHC nurses delivering geriatric care. The risk factors from the studies were with patient overcapacity, limited opportunities for professional advancement, and poor team staffing. The risk of acquiring infections, role ambiguity, excessive workload, economic insufficiency, and stigmatizing attitudes exposed primary care nurses in geriatric care to burnout. Conclusions: The systematic review reveals increased risk of burnout among primary care nurses in geriatric care. The high incidence of burnout complicates the geriatric care process for the primary care nurses. Future studies could identify the factors leading to burnout in geriatric care nurses in primary care centres to generate a viewpoint on the problem outside hospitals.