Relationship between General Health and Job Burnout among Hospital Personnels in Karaj city

This paper is a survey which was conducted to identify and study general health and job burnout of the hospital personnel and relationship between them. Statistical population includes all personnel of Karaj city hospitals in 2011 and sample size was 100 people who were selected using random sampling method. Research instruments included MSF Questionnaire and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and the findings obtained from it showed that job burnout of the hospital personnel is medium but it is higher than other indices in variables of frequency and intensity of depersonalization. General health, physical, anxiety, social function and depression variables were measured which indicated its medium level except for variable of depression. Study of difference between score of general health based on gender indicated little difference that is the women have better general health than men. Score of general heath based on employment status indicated difference between permanent personnel and contractual personnel so that the permanent personnel had better general health than the permanent personnel. Finally, there was significant relationship between two variables of job burnout and general health but correlation between two variables was not high.