Abstract:

Background and Aim: Nursing is an occupation that deals with the stress of the workplace and due to busy working hours are at risk of burnout and this agent can affect lifestyle. The purpose of this study was relationship investigation burnout job with Health Promotion Lifestyle in nurse's occupation in Ilam province hospitals in 2015.

Materials and Methods: This study is descriptive-analytic and cross-sectional, which carried out on 80 nurses in Ilam province. Data collection tool was job stress questionnaire burnout job by Meslash and Health Promotion Lifestyle questionnaire (HPLQ). Validity and reliability of this questionnaire was approved in previous studies. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS (version 20), Pearson correlation test, scatter plot, t-independent and tukey test.

Results: The results showed between burnout job and health promotion lifestyle components including stress management (r=-0.71, p-value=0.01), interpersonal relationship (r=-0.58, p-value=0.03), self-actualization (r=-0.63, p-value=0.03), health responsibility (r=-0.71, p-value=0.01), nutrition (r=-0.36, p-value=0.04), exercise and body (r=-0.29, p-value=0.05) and total score health promotion lifestyle (r=-0.67, p-value=0.02) was a reverse correlation. Tukey test results showed a non-significant difference in the average final score of health promoting lifestyles with age difference groups. Also, Tukey test results showed in people with age above 35 years of age there is a direct significant relationship between age with burnout.

‍Conclusion: The results indicate that burnout job is effective on lifestyle health promotion and mental and physical health and it is necessary in presented protective strategy and stress control management for increased levels of health promotion lifestyle and prevention or alleviate longitudinal negative consequences of burnout job.