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Clinical research and burnout syndrome in Italy – only a physicians’ affair?
BACKGROUND: The burnout phenomenon has been extensively investigated among health care professionals, particularly focusing on physicians and nurses. However, literature concerning burnout in clinical research is poor and often neglects the other professional categories involved. METHODS: In March 2...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7953807/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33712055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05158-z |
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author | Cagnazzo, Celeste Filippi, Roberto Zucchetti, Giulia Cenna, Rosita Taverniti, Cristiana Guarrera, Agata Sue Ellen Stabile, Stefano Federici, Irene Monti, Manuela Pirondi, Sara Testoni, Sara Fagioli, Franca |
author_facet | Cagnazzo, Celeste Filippi, Roberto Zucchetti, Giulia Cenna, Rosita Taverniti, Cristiana Guarrera, Agata Sue Ellen Stabile, Stefano Federici, Irene Monti, Manuela Pirondi, Sara Testoni, Sara Fagioli, Franca |
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description | BACKGROUND: The burnout phenomenon has been extensively investigated among health care professionals, particularly focusing on physicians and nurses. However, literature concerning burnout in clinical research is poor and often neglects the other professional categories involved. METHODS: In March 2019, all members of Italian Group of Clinical Research Coordinator were invited to participate to a web survey, consisting of three sections: general information and workload; Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) test; subjective perception of oneself’s work stress and possible causes. RESULTS: The majority of respondents felt a form of distress. The main source was contract type (31.2%), followed by workload (20.5%) and lack of skills recognition (17.8%). Results from MBI test confirmed the interviewees’ subjective perception: an intermediate level of emotional exhaustion (19.1 points) and a very high sense of reduced professional achievement (26.8 points) were observed. Both depersonalization and sense of reduced professional achievement showed weak to moderate correlations with emotional exhaustion. Emotional exhaustion was associated with contract type with high significance. CONCLUSION: It is necessary to act on those qualitative factors that are greatly increasing the level of perceived stress, jeopardizing the quality of clinical research coordinators work and significantly amplifying the phenomenon of migration towards the private sector. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13063-021-05158-z. |
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spelling | pubmed-79538072021-03-15 Clinical research and burnout syndrome in Italy – only a physicians’ affair? Cagnazzo, Celeste Filippi, Roberto Zucchetti, Giulia Cenna, Rosita Taverniti, Cristiana Guarrera, Agata Sue Ellen Stabile, Stefano Federici, Irene Monti, Manuela Pirondi, Sara Testoni, Sara Fagioli, Franca Trials Research BACKGROUND: The burnout phenomenon has been extensively investigated among health care professionals, particularly focusing on physicians and nurses. However, literature concerning burnout in clinical research is poor and often neglects the other professional categories involved. METHODS: In March 2019, all members of Italian Group of Clinical Research Coordinator were invited to participate to a web survey, consisting of three sections: general information and workload; Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) test; subjective perception of oneself’s work stress and possible causes. RESULTS: The majority of respondents felt a form of distress. The main source was contract type (31.2%), followed by workload (20.5%) and lack of skills recognition (17.8%). Results from MBI test confirmed the interviewees’ subjective perception: an intermediate level of emotional exhaustion (19.1 points) and a very high sense of reduced professional achievement (26.8 points) were observed. Both depersonalization and sense of reduced professional achievement showed weak to moderate correlations with emotional exhaustion. Emotional exhaustion was associated with contract type with high significance. CONCLUSION: It is necessary to act on those qualitative factors that are greatly increasing the level of perceived stress, jeopardizing the quality of clinical research coordinators work and significantly amplifying the phenomenon of migration towards the private sector. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13063-021-05158-z. BioMed Central 2021-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7953807/ /pubmed/33712055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05158-z Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Cagnazzo, Celeste Filippi, Roberto Zucchetti, Giulia Cenna, Rosita Taverniti, Cristiana Guarrera, Agata Sue Ellen Stabile, Stefano Federici, Irene Monti, Manuela Pirondi, Sara Testoni, Sara Fagioli, Franca Clinical research and burnout syndrome in Italy – only a physicians’ affair? |
title | Clinical research and burnout syndrome in Italy – only a physicians’ affair? |
title_full | Clinical research and burnout syndrome in Italy – only a physicians’ affair? |
title_fullStr | Clinical research and burnout syndrome in Italy – only a physicians’ affair? |
title_full_unstemmed | Clinical research and burnout syndrome in Italy – only a physicians’ affair? |
title_short | Clinical research and burnout syndrome in Italy – only a physicians’ affair? |
title_sort | clinical research and burnout syndrome in italy – only a physicians’ affair? |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7953807/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33712055 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05158-z |
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