Soltanifar Atefeh, Pishbin Elham, Attaran Mashhadi Negin, Najaf Najafi Mona, Siahtir Maryam
Psychiatry Department, Psychiatry and Behavioral Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Department of Emergency Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.
Emerg Med Australas. 2018 Aug;30(4):517-522. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.12941. Epub 2018 Feb 13.
The challenging and stressful nature of emergency medicine place the practitioners of this young branch of medicine at risk of burnout. In Iran, the number of women choosing the specialty of emergency medicine has been increasing in recent years. No studies have focused on burnout among female emergency medicine physicians. We conducted this study to evaluate the level of burnout in female emergency medicine physicians in Iran.
In this cross-sectional study, all Iranian female emergency medicine physicians with more than 2 years of work experience as specialists, received a questionnaire containing 22-item Maslach Burnout Inventory scales and 7-item Cassidy social support scale, as well as questions about workload and career satisfaction.
In total, 77 questionnaires were analysed (response rate: 75%; median age: 36 years, median for work experience = 3 years). A total of 34% of participants were academic faculties. The level of burnout in three subscales of emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and perceived low personal accomplishment was moderate to high in 84.5, 48.1 and 80.5% of participants respectively. A total of 94.8% of female emergency medicine physicians perceived their workload to be moderate to high and only 1.3% of them had high job satisfaction.
Alarming high rate of burnout and job dissatisfaction among female emergency medicine physicians in our study requires careful attention. Further investigations are suggested to identify the contributory factors to burnout and the probability of some gender disparities in this field.
急诊医学具有挑战性和压力大的特点，使得这一年轻医学分支的从业者面临职业倦怠的风险。在伊朗，近年来选择急诊医学专业的女性人数一直在增加。尚无研究关注女性急诊医学医生的职业倦怠情况。我们开展这项研究以评估伊朗女性急诊医学医生的职业倦怠水平。
在这项横断面研究中，所有具有2年以上专科工作经验的伊朗女性急诊医学医生收到一份问卷，其中包含22项的马氏职业倦怠量表、7项的卡西迪社会支持量表，以及关于工作量和职业满意度的问题。
共分析了77份问卷（回复率：75%；中位年龄：36岁，工作经验中位数 = 3年）。共有34%的参与者是学术教员。在情绪衰竭、去个性化和个人成就感低落这三个子量表中，职业倦怠水平分别在84.5%、48.1%和80.5%的参与者中为中度到高度。共有94.8%的女性急诊医学医生认为她们的工作量为中度到高度，只有1.3%的人对工作高度满意。
我们的研究中女性急诊医学医生职业倦怠和工作不满的高得惊人的比率需要引起密切关注。建议进一步调查以确定导致职业倦怠的因素以及该领域存在某些性别差异的可能性。
