Burn Out Syndrome in Working of Officers Rescue Station on Fire Distinguishing Operation Division 2 at Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department Bangkok Metropolitan Administration

Abstract

          This study aims to study: 1) Burnout syndrome of firefighter personnel in rescue operation station division 2, at Bangkok Fire and rescue department Metropolitan Administration. 2) Compare personal factors with burnout syndrome of firefighter personnel in rescue missions, and operations at Bangkok Fire and rescue department Metropolitan Administration. The participants in the study were officers of the rescue station on Firefighter Operation Division 2 at Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, two-hundreds in total numbers. The data as well as was proved the content validity and was verified with the value of Cronbach’s alpha reliability test of 0.967. The study used quantitative method, which utilized questionnaires to collect the data. The statistics used in this case were descriptive statistics analysis, frequency, percentage, mean, t-test and one way analysis of variance. The LSD method was used for the pair comparison.

          The results of the research were as follows:

          1) Burnout syndrome of firefighter personnel in rescue operation station division 2, at Bangkok Fire and rescue department Metropolitan Administration in total at moderate level (  = 2.75, S.D. = .669), when considering each item as follows: feelings of inferiority towards the others (  = 2.82, S.D. = .636), feeling of unsuccessful working (  = 2.7, S.D. = .752) and emotional exhaustion (  = 2.67, S.D. = .939) respectively.

          2) Compare personal factors with burnout syndrome of firefighter personnel in rescue missions, and operations at Bangkok Fire and rescue department Metropolitan Administration classified by age, performance periods and salary to be no difference, accept marry status and role in family to be difference.