Occupational Burnout of Healthcare Workers As a Consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Systematic Review in Scopus for 2024

Background. Stressful working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic have impaired the job performance and professional image of healthcare workers. A burnout syndrome is developed with the prevalence of alexithymia, depersonalization, distress, maladaptive types and forms of guilt, job dissatisfaction, work-related stress, professional deformations, reduced personal accomplishment, decline in activities of daily living, or emotional exhaustion. Purpose . To investigate occupational burnout among healthcare workers as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods and materials. A meta-analysis of 102 foreign scientific articles published in the international scientific citation system Scopus on the ScienceDirect platform in 2024 was carried out. For the study purpose, 9 publications that had not previously been analyzed and translated into Russian were selected, systematized and classified by areas of research on occupational burnout of healthcare workers as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results. Three identified areas of research on occupational burnout of healthcare workers as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic were prioritized: 1) identification of occupational burnout of healthcare workers as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic (44.45%); 2) monitoring of occupational burnout of healthcare workers as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic (33.33%); 3) prevention of occupational burnout of healthcare workers as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic (22.22%).