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Burnout levels among Portuguese family doctors: a nationwide survey
AIM: To characterise the prevalence of burnout syndrome in a sample of family doctors (FDs) working in the Portuguese National Health System. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Primary healthcare centres from the 18 continental districts and two archipelagos of Portugal. METHOD: The Portuguese...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22710131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001050 |
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author | Marcelino, Gisela Cerveira, João Melich Carvalho, Inês Costa, João Azeredo Lopes, Marta Calado, Nelson Encarnação Marques-Vidal, Pedro |
author_facet | Marcelino, Gisela Cerveira, João Melich Carvalho, Inês Costa, João Azeredo Lopes, Marta Calado, Nelson Encarnação Marques-Vidal, Pedro |
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description | AIM: To characterise the prevalence of burnout syndrome in a sample of family doctors (FDs) working in the Portuguese National Health System. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Primary healthcare centres from the 18 continental districts and two archipelagos of Portugal. METHOD: The Portuguese version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory—Human Services Survey was sent to 40 randomly selected healthcare centres and distributed to the FDs employed. Socio-demographic and work-related data were also collected. Participants were classified as having high, average or low levels of emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalisation (DP) and personal accomplishment (PA) dimensions of burnout. RESULTS: 371 questionnaires were sent, of which 153 (83 women, age range 29–64 years; response rate 41%) returned. One-quarter (25.3%, 95% CI 18.6% to 33.1%) of FDs scored high for EE, 16.2% (10.7% to 23.2%) for DP and 16.7% (11.1% to 23.6%) for lack of PA. On multivariate analysis, being married, of older age, having many years of practice or working in a personalised healthcare unit tended to be associated with increased burnout components. Men tended to present higher EE and DP but lower lack of PA than women. Finally, the prevalence (95% CI) of burnout ranged between 4.1% (1.5% to 8.6%) and 32.4% (25.0% to 40.6%), depending on the definition used. CONCLUSIONS: High burnout is relatively common among Portuguese FDs. Burnout relief measures should be developed in order to prevent a further increase of burnout syndrome among Portuguese FDs. |
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spelling | pubmed-33789362012-06-21 Burnout levels among Portuguese family doctors: a nationwide survey Marcelino, Gisela Cerveira, João Melich Carvalho, Inês Costa, João Azeredo Lopes, Marta Calado, Nelson Encarnação Marques-Vidal, Pedro BMJ Open General practice / Family practice AIM: To characterise the prevalence of burnout syndrome in a sample of family doctors (FDs) working in the Portuguese National Health System. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Primary healthcare centres from the 18 continental districts and two archipelagos of Portugal. METHOD: The Portuguese version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory—Human Services Survey was sent to 40 randomly selected healthcare centres and distributed to the FDs employed. Socio-demographic and work-related data were also collected. Participants were classified as having high, average or low levels of emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalisation (DP) and personal accomplishment (PA) dimensions of burnout. RESULTS: 371 questionnaires were sent, of which 153 (83 women, age range 29–64 years; response rate 41%) returned. One-quarter (25.3%, 95% CI 18.6% to 33.1%) of FDs scored high for EE, 16.2% (10.7% to 23.2%) for DP and 16.7% (11.1% to 23.6%) for lack of PA. On multivariate analysis, being married, of older age, having many years of practice or working in a personalised healthcare unit tended to be associated with increased burnout components. Men tended to present higher EE and DP but lower lack of PA than women. Finally, the prevalence (95% CI) of burnout ranged between 4.1% (1.5% to 8.6%) and 32.4% (25.0% to 40.6%), depending on the definition used. CONCLUSIONS: High burnout is relatively common among Portuguese FDs. Burnout relief measures should be developed in order to prevent a further increase of burnout syndrome among Portuguese FDs. BMJ Group 2012-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3378936/ /pubmed/22710131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001050 Text en © 2012, Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/legalcode. |
spellingShingle | General practice / Family practice Marcelino, Gisela Cerveira, João Melich Carvalho, Inês Costa, João Azeredo Lopes, Marta Calado, Nelson Encarnação Marques-Vidal, Pedro Burnout levels among Portuguese family doctors: a nationwide survey |
title | Burnout levels among Portuguese family doctors: a nationwide survey |
title_full | Burnout levels among Portuguese family doctors: a nationwide survey |
title_fullStr | Burnout levels among Portuguese family doctors: a nationwide survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Burnout levels among Portuguese family doctors: a nationwide survey |
title_short | Burnout levels among Portuguese family doctors: a nationwide survey |
title_sort | burnout levels among portuguese family doctors: a nationwide survey |
topic | General practice / Family practice |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22710131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001050 |
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