![]() 002) were associated with higher risk of burnout. 049), and having more weekends on call ( P =. 042), having shorter appointment lengths for return patients ( P =. In academic practice, being female ( P =. 036), whereas spending more time engaged in administrative work was associated with higher risk of burnout ( P =. In private practice, having children was associated with lower risk of burnout ( P =. The survey also identified significant differences in the factors associated with burnout in the private practice vs academic settings. 027) were factors significantly associated with higher risk of burnout. 039) and focus on an individual type of cancer ( P =. 001), higher number of hours performing work-related tasks at home ( P =. 001), higher number of hours providing direct patient care ( P <. A multivariate analysis revealed that younger age ( P <. Moreover, 38.3% reported emotional exhaustion, 24.9% depersonalization, and 13.2% a sense of low personal achievement. 8 Burnout was assessed through the Maslach Burnout Inventory, a standardized measure that assesses the 3 primary domains of burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a feeling of low personal accomplishment).Īmong a final sample size of 1490 respondents, 44.7% reported at least 1 symptom of burnout. Shanafelt et al conducted a survey assessing burnout and related predictors in a cohort of 1998 US-based oncologists identified through membership files of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in 2013. 3,9 Oncologists and other members of the oncology care team face challenges inherent to their work that place them at high risk of burnout, such as caring for a high proportion of terminally ill patients, counseling families, and prescribing and managing potentially toxic therapies. Recent reports have focused on the pandemic’s impact on physician burnout in fields including emergency medicine, critical care, and hospital medicine. 3 Given that burnout has been linked to higher rates of depression, substance use disorders, suicide, medical errors, and reduction in work hours, these findings have profound consequences not only for physicians and other members of the health care team, but for the practice of medicine more broadly. Longitudinal work evaluating the prevalence of burnout among physicians in the United States between 20 demonstrated that 62.8% of physicians surveyed in 2021 reported at least 1 burnout-related symptom compared with 38.2% ( P <. 1,2 Trauma and stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with subsequent widespread labor shortages, have turned what was an endemic issue in medicine to a pandemic of burnout in health care. Freudenberger as a condition that occurs when occupation-related stress combined with additional life pressures exceed an individual’s ability to cope and thrive, resulting in physical and mental distress. Burnout in medicine is not new-the syndrome was described in 1974 by psychologist Herbert J.
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