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Abstract
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Background
The burnout syndrome is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and low personal accomplishment. It is associated with impaired job performance, poor health and lead to physician error, these errors can in turn contribute to burnout. Effective educational programs are needed to maintain highest levels of physician health and function.
Aim of the work
Identify the prevalence of burnout and its related risk factors among physicians working in Suez Canal University hospital and family physicians working in family practice centers affiliated to Faculty of Medicine - Suez Canal University. Evaluate the level of burnout after implementation of an educational program and identify the sources of job stress, satisfaction among family physicians
Subjects and Methods
This is a pre-post intervention study in which the total sample size was 171 physicians. They have been evaluated for the presence of burnout and its related risk factors. A focused intervention program has been implemented on family physicians only (31 physicians) in the period between March-April 2012. The evaluation of burnout was through Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). The participant was considered to meet the study criteria for burnout if he or she got a ”high” score on at least 2 of the three dimensions of MBI. In addition to implementation of the intervention program on family physicians some sources of job stress and satisfaction were evaluated.
Results
In the current study, the prevalence of burnout in hospital physicians was higher than family physicians (53.9% versus 41.94%) with statistical significant difference between the two groups (p=0.001). Among hospital physicians the highest prevalence was found among the Internal Medicine physicians (69.64%) followed by Surgeons (56.50%) and Emergency doctors (39.39%) then the Pediatricians got the lowest prevalence (18.75%). Being hospital physicians or married were considered as strong predictors for occurrence of burnout. Most of family physicians (83.9%) experienced moderate level of job stress and more than two thirds (74.2%) were dissatisfied from their work. prevalence of burnout after six months of the intervention program was decreased from (41.9%) to (32.3%) with no significant change in the mean score of all burnout domains. More than eighty percent of the studied family physicians were satisfied with the intervention program.
Conclusion
There was a considerable prevalence of burnout among study physicians. Person directed approach has limited effect in reduction of professional burnout. Family physicians were stressed by their managerial responsibilities, daily interactions with suffering people, limitation of the available resources and greatly satisfied from good relationships with patients, relatives and staff.
Keywords: Burnout, Intervention program, Job stress, Job satisfaction.