Burnout is a predictor of high ten-year risk of cardiovascular disease among health workers in Ghana

Burnout is high among health workers in Ghana, and it is associated with ten-year risk of CVDs. It is recommended that health workers adopt measures that reduce their experience of stress on the job through regular psychological counselling to improve their psychological and physiological health. In addition, managers of employees in hospitals, particularly those in resource-constrained and stressful settings like those in sub-Saharan Africa must put in place measures to reduce burnout such as burnout-focused psychological counselling and peer-peer support systems among others to reduce the risk of burnout and possibly CVDs. Also, health education on lifestyle modifications such as healthy dietary regimes and structured exercise patterns must be put in place by individual health workers, managers of hospitals and the Ministry of Health, Ghana to improve the overall health of employees and possibly reduce the incidence of burnout and CVDs among hospital staff.