Table 1.
Studies considering staff burnout within elderly care settings identified in the literature review
| Authors | Setting | Staff | Location | Study details |
| Hunter, Hadjistavropoulos, Thorpe, Lix and Malloy, (2016) | Two large rural long-term residential care facilities | Nurses, nurse assistants, managers, professional staff, recreation staff, dietary staff, and housekeeping) extended beyond nursing staff | Canada | How burnout facets predict extent to which staff report delivering certain aspects of dementia centred residential care |
| Estabrooks, Squires, Carleton, Cummings and Norton, (2015) | Thirty six Long term care homes | Healthcare aids | Canada | Burnout characteristics of workers, how this differs between type of facility |
| Narumoto, Nakamura, Kitabayashi, Shibata, Nakamae and Fukui, (2008) | Two nursing homes | Nurses, nursing assistants, | Japan | Personality and coping style influences on burnout |
| Isaksson, Graneheim, Richter, Eisemann and Åström, (2008) | Three nursing homes | Registered Nurses, assistant nurses, and nurse aides | Sweden | Exposure to violence at work and impact on burnout |
| Anderson, (2008) | Twelve nursing homes | Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) | USA | Predictors of burnout in relation to different types of grief following resident death |
| Abrahamson, Anderson, Anderson, Suitor and Pillemer, (2010) | Nursing homes for the elderly | Nursing assistant and nurses | USA | Role of conflict with relatives in burnout |
| Mandiracioglu and Cam, (2006) | Six nursing homes | Healthcare workers, Office employee Nurse’s aides, Social workers, psychologists, Cleaners, Others | Turkey | Associations of burnout e.g. gender, violence, elderly and organisational issues |
| Åhlin, Ericson-Lidman, Norberg and Strandberg, (2015) | Two residential care units for older people | Registered Nurses and nurse assistants | Sweden | Individual difference variables role in burnout. Differences between types of home |
| Passalacqua and Harwood, (2012). | A for-profit long-term care facility specialising in memory issues (namely AD and other dementias) | Caregivers | USA | Contribution of dementia communication training intervention on burnout |
| Hillman, (2006) | Nursing home care unit | Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, Certified Nursing Assistants | USA | Association of staff perceptions of problematic resident behaviour, staff view of the residents displaying this behaviour and burnout |
| Martinez, Suârez-Alvarez, Yanguas, and Muniz, (2016) | 56 residential care homes for the elderly | Care assistants, professionals from a range of disciplines | Spain | Correlations between perceptions of person centred care delivery frequency and burnout |
| Shinan-Altman, Werner and Cohen, (2016) | Nursing homes and hospitals | Social workers and nurses | Israel | Staff perception of AD and associations with burnout |
| Kubicek and Korunka, (2015) | Nursing homes and outpatient care organizations | Nurses, orderlies, and nursing aides | Austria | Role of emotion rule dissonance in burnout |
| Hillman, Skoloda, Angelini and Stricker, (2001) | Nursing home | Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses and Nursing Assistants | USA | Role of burnout in staff negative perceptions of problematic resident behaviour |