2019 Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages 92-102
This study aimed to show factors related to the burnout of midwives who work in maternity wards.
We conducted a self-rating questionnaire survey, and the participants were 614 midwives who were working in general perinatal medical centers or regional perinatal medical centers in the Kanto region of Japan. Question items surveyed in this study include ‘burnout: Maslach Burnout Inventory (J-MBI)', ‘personal demographic characteristics', ‘work-life-balance (WLB): Nursing WLB Index:N-WLBI', ‘workplace environment', and ‘severity of responsibility felt by the midwives'. In total 386 responses were collected (62.9%), the mean age was 34.7 (±10.0) years, and the total burnout score was 11.3. The results of the multiple regression analysis showed that the adjusted coefficient of determination was 0.40. Factors that were strongly related to burnout of midwives were ‘career development', ‘feelings of difficulty in the cooperation with physicians', ‘feelings of the burden of directly assisting in the delivery', ‘effort for self-realization', and ‘overtime' in the subscale of the WLB. The findings suggest that improvements of these items would reduce the risk of burnout of midwives working in maternity wards.
