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Burnout in UK care home staff and its effect on staff turnover: MARQUE English national care home longitudinal survey

Costello, H; Cooper, C; Marston, L; Livingston, G; (2019) Burnout in UK care home staff and its effect on staff turnover: MARQUE English national care home longitudinal survey. Age & Ageing 10.1093/ageing/afz118. (In press). Green open access

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BACKGROUND: staff burnout and turnover lead to care home residents receiving poorer quality care. Burnout is thought to cause turnover, but this has never been investigated. We know little about which care home staffs are burnt out. AIMS: to explore burnout's relationship with staff turnover and prevalence and predictors of burnout. METHOD: we calculated the relationship between Maslach Burnout Inventory scores and future staff turnover (12-month number of staff leaving/number employed). We explored staff, resident and care home predictors of burnout, measured as emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalisation (DP) and personal accomplishment (PA). RESULTS: two-thousand sixty-two care staff in 97 care home units participated. Median yearly staff turnover was 22.7%, interquartile range (IQR) 14.0-37.7%. Care staff recorded low median burnout (median EE: 14, IQR: 7-22; DP: 1, IQR: 0-5; PA 42, IQR: 36-45). We found no association between staff burnout and turnover rate. Younger staff age was associated with higher burnout (EE coefficient - 0.09; 95% confidence interval (CI): -0.13, -0.05; DP -0.02; 95% CI: -0.04, -0.01; PA 0.05; 95% CI: 0.02, 0.08). Speaking English as a second language predicted higher EE (1.59; 95% CI: 0.32, 2.85), males had higher DP (0.02; 95% CI: 0.01, 0.04) and staff working only night shifts lower PA (-2.08; 95% CI: -4.05, -1.30). CONCLUSIONS: we found no association between care homes staff burnout level and staff turnover rates. It is a myth that burnout levels are high. Interventions for burnout could focus on at-risk groups. Future studies could consider turnover at an individual level.

Type: Article
Title: Burnout in UK care home staff and its effect on staff turnover: MARQUE English national care home longitudinal survey
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afz118
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afz118
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: burnout, care staff, dementia, older people, social care
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Division of Psychiatry
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Primary Care and Population Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10084975
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