Relationship between Work Life Quality and Burnout of Disabled and Elderly Care Personnel

Family care service has been left to institutional care services and professional care personnel because the traditional family structure has been transformed into core family structure and women take part in working life. Compared to other occupations, higher burnout level of social service personnel and the work environment’s being more hazardous affect the quality of care service in a negative way. Current research carried out by the disabled and elderly care personnel working at a total of 11 aged care and disabled care facilities in the provinces of K？rklareli, Edirne, and Tekirda？ aims to determine whether the levels of burnout and working life quality perception differ according to the socio-demographic characteristics of employees and to investigate the relationship between burnout and working life quality perception levels. In the research, survey technique and complete inventory method were used. The results show that the only variable which made a difference in the burnout level of the social service personnel and the quality of working life perception is service training and there is a negative relationship between burnout and work life quality