The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has become an extremely difficult time for parenting, from distant learning to financial uncertainty, and more and more parents are burned out, USA Today reported.

A new study has found that 66% of working parents meet the criteria for parental burnout, which occurs when chronic stress and exhaustion overwhelm a parent's ability to function and cope with their responsibilities.

Researchers from Ohio State University released the report Thursday. Their findings are based on an online survey of 1,285 working parents conducted between January 2021 and April 2021, which provided feedback from families across the country during significant health care interruptions.

Burnout is not a medical condition. In 2019, the World Health Organization officially recognized burnout as a "syndrome" and an "occupational phenomenon" that can have health consequences. As the American Psychological Association notes, while there are similarities, the effects of parental burnout are different from burnout at work.

Working parents are particularly at risk for parental burnout because they juggle multiple stressors both at work and at home, the researchers said.

The report says the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated stressors and contributed to "epidemic levels of parental burnout and exhaustion." And burnout isn't going away anytime soon, the report's authors believe.