Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Haldenbachstrasse 16/18, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich (UZH), CH-8006 Zurich, Switzerland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 2;20(3):2693. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20032693.
Physician burnout is a systemic problem in health care due to its high prevalence and its negative impact on professional functioning and individual well-being. While unique aspects of the physician role contributing to the development burnout have been investigated recently, it is currently unclear whether burnout manifests differently in physicians compared to the non-physician working population. We conducted an individual symptom analysis of burnout symptoms comparing a large sample of physicians with a non-physician group. In this cross-sectional online study, burnout was assessed with the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey. We matched physicians with non-physicians regarding their age, gender, educational level, occupational status, and total burnout level using a "nearest neighbour matching" procedure. We then conducted a series of between-groups comparisons. Data of 3846 (51.0% women) participants including 641 physicians and 3205 non-physicians were analysed. The most pronounced difference was that physicians were more satisfied with their work performance (medium effect size (r = 0.343). Our findings indicate minor yet significant differences in burnout phenomenology between physicians and non-physicians. This demonstrates unique aspects of physician burnout and implies that such differences should be considered in occupational research among physicians, particularly when developing burnout prevention programs for physicians.
医生职业倦怠是医疗保健系统中的一个系统性问题，其高患病率及其对专业功能和个人健康的负面影响。虽然最近已经研究了导致职业倦怠的医生角色的独特方面，但目前尚不清楚职业倦怠在医生和非医生职业人群中的表现是否不同。我们对大量医生与非医生群体进行了职业倦怠症状的个体症状分析。在这项横断面在线研究中，采用 Maslach 职业倦怠量表综合调查评估职业倦怠。我们使用“最近邻居匹配”程序根据年龄、性别、教育水平、职业地位和总职业倦怠水平对医生和非医生进行匹配。然后，我们进行了一系列组间比较。共分析了 3846 名（51.0%为女性）参与者的数据，其中包括 641 名医生和 3205 名非医生。最显著的差异是医生对自己的工作表现更满意（中等效应大小（r = 0.343）。我们的研究结果表明，医生和非医生之间的职业倦怠表现存在微小但显著的差异。这表明医生职业倦怠有其独特的方面，意味着在医生职业研究中应考虑这些差异，尤其是在为医生制定职业倦怠预防计划时。
