A Quasi-Experimental Study: Can Self-Leadership Training and Emotional Intelligence Mentoring Lower Burnout Rates in Hospital Nurses?

BACKGROUND: Burnout syndrome is found in health workers who are directly related to services and a high prevalence
in care because they always experience stressful condition in workplace. Hence, this condition needs attention from the
hospitals. One of the efforts to lower the burnout is self-leadership and emotional intelligence mentoring.
AIM: This study aimed to analyzing the effect of self-leadership and emotional intelligence mentoring as an effort to lower the burnout rates of nurses
METHODS: This study used a quantitative approach with a quasi-experimental method using a pretest-posttest.
The population of this study was nurses at RSUD Noongan and RSU GMIM Bethesda Tomohon with a total of 344
nurses. Sampling was carried out using simple random sampling. And based on the sampling, a sample of 159
nurses was obtained. This study used the Maslach Burnout Inventory questionnaire on nurses to see the level of
fatigue experienced before the intervention was given and the Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire was adapted
to measure nurses’ self-leadership and a questionnaire to see the knowledge of research subjects (nurses) related
to emotional intelligence. Data analysis methods used in this study were a structural equation modeling using partial
least squares (PLSs).
RESULTS: The results show that before the interventions, there was an effect of self-leadership on burnout
(0.000 < 0.05) and there was an effect of emotional intelligence on burnout (0.001 < 0.05) at GMIM Bethesda Hospital.
Furthermore, after the interventions, there is an effect of self-leadership on burnout (0.000 < 0.05) and there is an effect of emotional intelligence on burnout (0.001 < 0.05) at GMIM Bethesda Hospital. Furthermore, before the interventions,
there was an effect of self-leadership on burnout (0.000 < 0.05) and there is an effect of emotional intelligence on
burnout (0.000 < 0.05) at Noongan Hospital. Furthermore, after the interventions, there is an effect of self-leadership on burnout (0.000 < 0.05) and there is an effect of emotional intelligence on burnout (0.001 < 0.05) at Noongan Hospital.
CONCLUSIONS: It can be seen that self-leadership and emotional intelligence have an effect on reducing the
burnout levels of nurses at GMIM Bethesda Hospital and Noongan Hospital.