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Comparing Burnout Across Emergency Physicians, Nurses, Technicians, and Health Information Technicians Working for the Same Organization.

AbstractStudies on the topic of burnout measure the effects of emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) (negative or cynical attitudes toward work), and reduced sense of personal accomplishment (PA). While the prevalence of burnout in practicing emergency medicine (EM) professionals has been studied, little is known of the prevalence and factors across physicians, nurses, technicians, and health information technicians working for the same institution. The aim of this study was to assess burnout differences across EM professional types.The total population of 250 EM professionals at 2 public urban hospitals in Turkey were surveyed using the Maslach Burnout Inventory and basic social- and work-related demographics. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, and additional post hoc tests were computed.Findings show that EE and DP scores were high across all occupational groups, while scores on PA were low. There was a statistically significant difference between nurses and medical technicians (P < 0.05) for EE; and between physicians and both nurses and medical technicians (P < 0.05) for PA; while no group differences were found for DP. Age, gender, economic well-being, and income level were all significant; while patient load and marital status showed no significance.Burnout can be high across occupational groups in the emergency department. Burnout is important for EM administrators to assess across human resources. Statistically significant differences across socio-demographic groups vary across occupational groups. However, differences between occupational groups may not be explained effectively by the demographic factors assessed in this or other prior studies. Rather, the factors associated with burnout are incomplete and require further institutional, cultural, and organizational analyses including differentiating between job tasks carried out by each EM job type.

An analysis of relationship between burnout and job satisfaction among emergency health professionals

Burnout among emergency medical practitioners and personnel negatively affects career satisfaction and job performance and leads to a high prevalence of mental health issues, including anxiety, depression and suicide. This study investigates the relationship between the perceptions of burnout and job satisfaction for those working in emergency services in two public hospitals in Turkey. This study also examines the levels of burnout and job satisfaction in terms of gender, marital status, education and occupation. Participants in this study include 250 emergency service personnel. The Maslach Burnout Inventory Scale, which assesses emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and personal accomplishment, and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, which assesses internal satisfaction, external satisfaction and overall satisfaction, were used for data collection. The results of this study indicate that there is a significant relationship between burnout and job satisfaction. This study also shows that education, marital status and occupation affect burnout and job satisfaction. However, gender was also determined to have a significant effect on job satisfaction. Moreover, this study reveals that emotional exhaustion is a significant predictor of overall satisfaction, that emotional exhaustion and depersonalisation are significant predictors of intrinsic job satisfaction and that emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment are significant predictors of extrinsic job satisfaction. Therefore, the results of this study suggest that emotional exhaustion is the significant regressor affecting job satisfaction.