the study of relationship between job burnout and performance in east azerbaijan’s health house workers

background: burnout syndrome is the most dangerous threatening factor of worker’s health working in health. the aim of this study was determined the relationship between burnout and performance of health house workers in east azerbaijan. method: this is a cross sectional study which have been done on 89 health house workers in east azerbaijan’s. data collection by jackson and mazlak’s standard questionnaires and check list of health house’s performance evaluation. data were analyzed by spss version 18 using pearson correlation and t-test and anova. findings: our result showed moderate levels of burnout among health workers and between them there is the risk of burnout . there was no significant relationship between burnout and performance and between subsets of burnout including depersonalization and emotional exhaustion but there was significant relationship between performance and personal accomplishment reduce. conclusion: though there was no significant relationship between burnout and performance in this study, we can’t certainly reject the effect of burnout on the efficiency, effectiveness and productivity in the organizations. it is necessary to notice the other factors that may effect on job burnout or performance of health house workers.