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Reducing workplace burnout: the relative benefits of cardiovascular and resistance exercise
Objectives. The global burden of burnout cost is in excess of $300 billion annually. Locally, just under half of working Australians experience high levels of occupational burnout. Consequently, burnout interventions are paramount to organisational productivity. Exercise has the potential to provide...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393815/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25870778 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.891 |
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description | Objectives. The global burden of burnout cost is in excess of $300 billion annually. Locally, just under half of working Australians experience high levels of occupational burnout. Consequently, burnout interventions are paramount to organisational productivity. Exercise has the potential to provide a multilevel and cost effective burnout intervention. The current study aims to extend the literature by comparing cardiovascular with resistance exercise to assess their relative effectiveness against well-being, perceived stress, and burnout. Design. Participants were 49 (36 females and 13 males) previously inactive volunteers ranging in age from 19 to 68 that completed a four week exercise program of either cardiovascular, resistance, or no exercise (control). Randomised control trial design was employed. Method. Participants were measured against the Subjective Exercise Experience Scale, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Results. After four weeks of exercise participants had greater positive well-being and personal accomplishment, and concomitantly less psychological distress, perceived stress, and emotional exhaustion. Cardiovascular exercise was found to increase well-being and decrease psychological distress, perceived stress, and emotional exhaustion. Resistance training was noticeably effective in increasing well-being and personal accomplishment and to reduce perceived stress. The present findings revealed large effect sizes suggesting that exercise may be an effective treatment for burnout. However, given a small sample size further research needs to be conducted. Conclusion. Exercise has potential to be an effective burnout intervention. Different types of exercise may assist employees in different ways. Organisations wishing to proactively reduce burnout can do so by encouraging their employees to access regular exercise programs. |
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spelling | pubmed-43938152015-04-13 Reducing workplace burnout: the relative benefits of cardiovascular and resistance exercise Bretland, Rachel Judith Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin PeerJ Psychiatry and Psychology Objectives. The global burden of burnout cost is in excess of $300 billion annually. Locally, just under half of working Australians experience high levels of occupational burnout. Consequently, burnout interventions are paramount to organisational productivity. Exercise has the potential to provide a multilevel and cost effective burnout intervention. The current study aims to extend the literature by comparing cardiovascular with resistance exercise to assess their relative effectiveness against well-being, perceived stress, and burnout. Design. Participants were 49 (36 females and 13 males) previously inactive volunteers ranging in age from 19 to 68 that completed a four week exercise program of either cardiovascular, resistance, or no exercise (control). Randomised control trial design was employed. Method. Participants were measured against the Subjective Exercise Experience Scale, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Results. After four weeks of exercise participants had greater positive well-being and personal accomplishment, and concomitantly less psychological distress, perceived stress, and emotional exhaustion. Cardiovascular exercise was found to increase well-being and decrease psychological distress, perceived stress, and emotional exhaustion. Resistance training was noticeably effective in increasing well-being and personal accomplishment and to reduce perceived stress. The present findings revealed large effect sizes suggesting that exercise may be an effective treatment for burnout. However, given a small sample size further research needs to be conducted. Conclusion. Exercise has potential to be an effective burnout intervention. Different types of exercise may assist employees in different ways. Organisations wishing to proactively reduce burnout can do so by encouraging their employees to access regular exercise programs. PeerJ Inc. 2015-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4393815/ /pubmed/25870778 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.891 Text en © 2015 Bretland and Thorsteinsson http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry and Psychology Bretland, Rachel Judith Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin Reducing workplace burnout: the relative benefits of cardiovascular and resistance exercise |
title | Reducing workplace burnout: the relative benefits of cardiovascular and resistance exercise |
title_full | Reducing workplace burnout: the relative benefits of cardiovascular and resistance exercise |
title_fullStr | Reducing workplace burnout: the relative benefits of cardiovascular and resistance exercise |
title_full_unstemmed | Reducing workplace burnout: the relative benefits of cardiovascular and resistance exercise |
title_short | Reducing workplace burnout: the relative benefits of cardiovascular and resistance exercise |
title_sort | reducing workplace burnout: the relative benefits of cardiovascular and resistance exercise |
topic | Psychiatry and Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393815/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25870778 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.891 |
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