Abstract

Introduction: Job burnout is one of the problems in today's society and electronic health literacy has also been introduced as a global issue in the 21st century. Because of the use of technologies such as computers, Internet and office automation that are a prerequisite for understanding the concept of electronic health literacy, the rate of job burnout is affected. The present research was conducted for the purpose of determining the effect of electronic health literacy on job burnout among the staff of health information management. Methods: This study was a descriptive-analytical study in which standard questionnaires of Norman and Skinner electronic health literacy and Maslach job burnout questionnaire were used. The study population included all staff of health information management in Zahedan hospitals in 1398. In this study, the whole population sampling method was used for sampling the target population. So that the number of the population is 60 people with at least an associate degree, therefore the same number was selected as the statistical sample. The data obtained using statistical methods in two parts of descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential (regression analysis) using spss 22 software, P <0.05 was analyzed in significant level. Findings: The results showed that there is a significant relationship between job burnout and health literacy (frequency, severity) and for one unit increase in health literacy score, job burnout rate (frequency) was reduced by 0.88. Conclusion: To reduce job burnout and increase health literacy among the staff of health information management, we can hold training workshops as the title of  "to fight against job burnout and management methods for managers and staff" and make them familiar with factors Increasing Job Burnout in work area and to confront with the factors that cause them and teach the skills to increase electronic health literacy.