Professional burnout among family physicians
Journal Title: New Medicine - Year 2010, Vol 14, Issue 4
Abstract
The ?burnout syndrome? (BOS) is used to describe a type of job stress specifically in those professionals who maintain a direct relationship with people who are the beneficiaries of their work, and means to be or feel burned out, exhausted, and overworked. The risk of professional burnout particularly concerns people who practise professions belonging to the so-called human services group. Professional burnout is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. As the stress continues, one begins to lose interest in or motivation for performing one?s job. Additionally, burnout reduces one?s productivity and energy. There are three phases of professional burnout: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced sense of personal accomplishment. Professional burnout is often associated with incapacitation and high social, economic and individual cost, absenteeism, decrease in productivity, high turnover, increasing demand for health services, and abusive use of tranquilizers, alcohol and other drugs. Factors associated with burnout include age, marital status, how long the individual has been working as a health professional, work overload, interpersonal conflicts, conflicts between workers and their clientele, and lack of social support, of autonomy and of participation in decision-making processes. This paper discusses basic problems of professional burnout among family physicians.
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Ewa Ogłodek, Aleksander Araszkiewicz
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