Attrition of Nursing Professionals in Ghana: An Effect of Burnout on Intention to Quit

Table 4

Multiple logistic regression analysis of the relationship between burnout and intention to quit among study participants.

Variables	Unadjusted OR (95% CI)	-value	Adjusted OR (95% CI)	-value
Emotional exhaustion
Low	1.00		1.00
Moderate	2.73 (1.72–4.35)	<0.001	2.49 (1.51–4.09)	<0.001
High	6.21 (2.72–14.17)	<0.001	5.46 (2.25–13.20)	<0.001
Depersonalisation
Low	1.00		1.00
Moderate	2.46 (1.53–3.97)	<0.001	1.77 (1.07–2.95)	0.027
High	2.19 (1.28–3.74)	0.004	1.06 (0.57–1.98)	0.843
Personal accomplishment
Low	1.00		1.00
Moderate	1.71 (1.02–2.87)	0.043	1.52 (0.88–2.62)	0.135
High	2.39 (1.42–4.02)	0.001	2.27 (1.30–3.96)	0.004

NB: each of the variables emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and personal accomplishment was adjusted for the other two ORs (odds ratio)s.