The work-life balance of general practitioners as a predictor of burnout and motivation to stay in the profession

BACKGROUND: Work-life balance (WLB) is associated with a variety of health-related outcomes in the general population. Since General Practitioners (GPs) play a fundamental role in the health system, we wanted to analyze the associations between their WLB and burnout scores as well as motivation to s...

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Autores principales: Bodendieck, Erik, Jung, Franziska U., Conrad, Ines, Riedel-Heller, Steffi G., Hussenoeder, Felix S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9429779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36042417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-022-01831-7
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author Bodendieck, Erik
Jung, Franziska U.
Conrad, Ines
Riedel-Heller, Steffi G.
Hussenoeder, Felix S.
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Jung, Franziska U.
Conrad, Ines
Riedel-Heller, Steffi G.
Hussenoeder, Felix S.
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description BACKGROUND: Work-life balance (WLB) is associated with a variety of health-related outcomes in the general population. Since General Practitioners (GPs) play a fundamental role in the health system, we wanted to analyze the associations between their WLB and burnout scores as well as motivation to stay in the profession. METHODS: In September 2019, physicians from various specialties answered a comprehensive questionnaire. We analyzed a subsample of 188 GPs that were working full time, 61.7% were female. RESULTS: Multivariate analysis showed a beneficial association between WLB and all three dimensions of burnout (Emotional Exhaustion, Cynicism, and Professional Efficacy) as well as the motivation to stay in the profession. CONCLUSIONS: Improving GPs WLB could be a way to reduce physician burnout, strengthen the healthcare system, and attract a new generation of talented physicians.
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spelling pubmed-94297792022-09-01 The work-life balance of general practitioners as a predictor of burnout and motivation to stay in the profession Bodendieck, Erik Jung, Franziska U. Conrad, Ines Riedel-Heller, Steffi G. Hussenoeder, Felix S. BMC Prim Care Research BACKGROUND: Work-life balance (WLB) is associated with a variety of health-related outcomes in the general population. Since General Practitioners (GPs) play a fundamental role in the health system, we wanted to analyze the associations between their WLB and burnout scores as well as motivation to stay in the profession. METHODS: In September 2019, physicians from various specialties answered a comprehensive questionnaire. We analyzed a subsample of 188 GPs that were working full time, 61.7% were female. RESULTS: Multivariate analysis showed a beneficial association between WLB and all three dimensions of burnout (Emotional Exhaustion, Cynicism, and Professional Efficacy) as well as the motivation to stay in the profession. CONCLUSIONS: Improving GPs WLB could be a way to reduce physician burnout, strengthen the healthcare system, and attract a new generation of talented physicians. BioMed Central 2022-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9429779/ /pubmed/36042417 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-022-01831-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://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.
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Bodendieck, Erik
Jung, Franziska U.
Conrad, Ines
Riedel-Heller, Steffi G.
Hussenoeder, Felix S.
The work-life balance of general practitioners as a predictor of burnout and motivation to stay in the profession
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9429779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36042417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-022-01831-7
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