Burnout and compassion fatigue: prevalence and associations among Israeli burn clinicians

Acute health care environments can be stressful settings with clinicians experiencing deleterious effects of burnout and compassion fatigue affecting their mental health. Subsequently, the quality of patient care and outcomes may be threatened if clinicians experience burnout or compassion fatigue....

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Published in:Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment 2017-01, Vol.13, p.1533-1540
Main Authors: Haik, Josef, Brown, Stav, Liran, Alon, Visentin, Denis, Sokolov, Amit, Zilinsky, Isaac, Kornhaber, Rachel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
burn injury
Burn out (Psychology)
Burnout
Burns
Careers
compassion fatigue
Fatigue
Health surveys
Intensive care
Job satisfaction
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Mental health
Original Research
Physicians
Primary care
Professional Quality of Life Scale
Professionals
Professions
Psychiatry
Psychological aspects
Quality of life
Questionnaires
Registered nurses
resilience
Risk factors
Statistical analysis
Stress
Surgeons
Surgery
Trauma
Working hours
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Summary:Acute health care environments can be stressful settings with clinicians experiencing deleterious effects of burnout and compassion fatigue affecting their mental health. Subsequently, the quality of patient care and outcomes may be threatened if clinicians experience burnout or compassion fatigue. Therefore, the aim of this descriptive, cross-sectional study was to evaluate the prevalence of burnout and compassion fatigue among burn clinicians in Israel. Fifty-five clinicians from Burns, Plastics and Reconstruction Surgery and Intensive Care completed four validated surveys to assess burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory), depression (PRIME-MD), health-related quality of life (SF-8), and compassion fatigue (Professional Quality of Life version 5). Burn clinicians were compared with Plastics and Reconstruction Surgery and Intensive Care clinicians. This study identified a high prevalence of burnout (38.2%) among Intensive Care, Plastics and Reconstruction and Burns clinicians, with Burns clinicians having a greatly increased prevalence of burnout compared to Intensive Care clinicians (OR =24.3, =0.017). Additional factors contributing to compassion fatigue were those without children ( =0.016), divorced ( =0.035), of a younger age ( =0.019), and a registered nurse ( =0.05). Burnout increased clinicians' risk of adverse professional and personal outcomes and correlated with less free time (
ISSN:1176-6328
1178-2021
1178-2021
DOI:10.2147/NDT.S133181