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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">JOHS</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Journ of Health Scien</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of HealthCare Sciences</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Journ of Health Scien</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn>
      <issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">336</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">http://dx.doi.org/10.52533/JOHS.2024.41215</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Psychiatry</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Prevalence and Predictors of Burnout Among Healthcare Workers of Palliative Care Department in King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia&#13;
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      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>AlKhalifah</surname>
            <given-names>Ahmad Khalifah</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alsalman</surname>
            <given-names>Reem Sulaiman</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>AlShehery</surname>
            <given-names>Maied Zaher</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>17</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>4</volume>
      <issue>12</issue>
      <fpage>744</fpage>
      <lpage>755</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>Background: The need for providing palliative care is increasing worldwide because of the progression in life expectancy accompanied by advances in medical care and having many patients with incurable and advanced diseases. This is mostly accompanied by a stressful life for health workers, as they face daily tragedy and suffering; therefore, they are at higher risk for burnout. The current study was conducted to estimate the rate and associated factors of burnout and its dimensions among healthcare workers of the Palliative Care Department in King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.&#13;
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Methodology: This observational cross-sectional study was performed at the palliative care department in King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, among all healthcare workers. Data was collected using a pre-designed, valid self-administrated questionnaire. It included two main sections: sociodemographic and work-related data and Maslach burnout inventory (MBI) to assess the overall burnout and its three subscales: emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP), and personal accomplishment (PA).&#13;
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Results: The prevalence of high EE was 49.3%, whereas those of high DP and low PA were 62% and 63.4%, respectively. The overall prevalence of burnout among palliative care health workers was 23.9%. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that divorced/widowed participants were at a significantly higher risk of burnout compared to singles, with adjusted odds ratio (AOR) =18.92; 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.63-136.14, p=0.004. Compared to participants with short annual vacations (?4 weeks), those with long annual vacations (&gt;4 weeks) were at lower risk for burnout (AOR=0.27; 95% CI: 0.08-0.84), p=0.024.&#13;
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Conclusion: Burnout is a prevalent problem among healthcare workers working in palliative care in Riyadh, with no difference between physicians, nurses, and other workers. Decision makers should take care of the working environment of this category of healthcare, particularly their annual vacation length, and specific attention should be given to divorced/widowed workers to reduce the burden of burnout among them.&#13;
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      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>Burnout</kwd>
        <kwd> Healthcare workers</kwd>
        <kwd> Palliative care</kwd>
        <kwd> Saudi Arabia</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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