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Correlation between psychological resilience and burnout syndrome in oncologists amid the Covid-19 pandemic

PURPOSE: Oncologists are predisposed to developing burnout syndrome. Like other health care professionals worldwide, oncologists have endured additional, extreme challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic. Psychological resilience presents a potential protective mechanism against burnout. This cross-se...

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Autores principales: Budisavljevic, Anuska, Kelemenic-Drazin, Renata, Silovski, Tajana, Plestina, Stjepko, Plavetic, Natalija Dedic
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9999072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36897484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-023-07660-3
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author Budisavljevic, Anuska
Kelemenic-Drazin, Renata
Silovski, Tajana
Plestina, Stjepko
Plavetic, Natalija Dedic
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Kelemenic-Drazin, Renata
Silovski, Tajana
Plestina, Stjepko
Plavetic, Natalija Dedic
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description PURPOSE: Oncologists are predisposed to developing burnout syndrome. Like other health care professionals worldwide, oncologists have endured additional, extreme challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic. Psychological resilience presents a potential protective mechanism against burnout. This cross-sectional study examines whether psychological resilience eased burnout syndrome among Croatian oncologists during the pandemic. METHODS: An anonymized self-reporting questionnaire was electronically distributed by the Croatian Society for Medical Oncology to 130 specialist and resident oncologists working in hospitals. Available for completion from September 6–24, 2021, the survey comprised demographic questions; the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI), covering exhaustion and disengagement; and the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). The response rate was 57.7%. RESULTS: Burnout was moderate or high for 86% of respondents, while 77% had moderate or high psychological resilience. Psychological resilience was significantly negatively correlated with the OLBI exhaustion subscale (r =  − .54; p < 0.001) and the overall OLBI score (r =  − .46; p < 0.001). Scheffe’s post hoc test showed that oncologists with high resilience scored significantly lower on the overall OLBI (M = 2.89; SD = 0.487) compared to oncologists with low resilience (M = 2.52; SD = 0.493). CONCLUSION: The findings thus indicate that oncologists with high psychological resilience are at significantly lower risk of developing burnout syndrome. Accordingly, convenient measures to encourage psychological resilience in oncologists should be identified and implemented.
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spelling pubmed-99990722023-03-10 Correlation between psychological resilience and burnout syndrome in oncologists amid the Covid-19 pandemic Budisavljevic, Anuska Kelemenic-Drazin, Renata Silovski, Tajana Plestina, Stjepko Plavetic, Natalija Dedic Support Care Cancer Research PURPOSE: Oncologists are predisposed to developing burnout syndrome. Like other health care professionals worldwide, oncologists have endured additional, extreme challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic. Psychological resilience presents a potential protective mechanism against burnout. This cross-sectional study examines whether psychological resilience eased burnout syndrome among Croatian oncologists during the pandemic. METHODS: An anonymized self-reporting questionnaire was electronically distributed by the Croatian Society for Medical Oncology to 130 specialist and resident oncologists working in hospitals. Available for completion from September 6–24, 2021, the survey comprised demographic questions; the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (OLBI), covering exhaustion and disengagement; and the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). The response rate was 57.7%. RESULTS: Burnout was moderate or high for 86% of respondents, while 77% had moderate or high psychological resilience. Psychological resilience was significantly negatively correlated with the OLBI exhaustion subscale (r =  − .54; p < 0.001) and the overall OLBI score (r =  − .46; p < 0.001). Scheffe’s post hoc test showed that oncologists with high resilience scored significantly lower on the overall OLBI (M = 2.89; SD = 0.487) compared to oncologists with low resilience (M = 2.52; SD = 0.493). CONCLUSION: The findings thus indicate that oncologists with high psychological resilience are at significantly lower risk of developing burnout syndrome. Accordingly, convenient measures to encourage psychological resilience in oncologists should be identified and implemented. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2023-03-10 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9999072/ /pubmed/36897484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-023-07660-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 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/) .
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Plestina, Stjepko
Plavetic, Natalija Dedic
Correlation between psychological resilience and burnout syndrome in oncologists amid the Covid-19 pandemic
title Correlation between psychological resilience and burnout syndrome in oncologists amid the Covid-19 pandemic
title_full Correlation between psychological resilience and burnout syndrome in oncologists amid the Covid-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Correlation between psychological resilience and burnout syndrome in oncologists amid the Covid-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Correlation between psychological resilience and burnout syndrome in oncologists amid the Covid-19 pandemic
title_short Correlation between psychological resilience and burnout syndrome in oncologists amid the Covid-19 pandemic
title_sort correlation between psychological resilience and burnout syndrome in oncologists amid the covid-19 pandemic
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9999072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36897484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-023-07660-3
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