STUDYING THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF EMOTIONAL-PERSONAL WELL-BEING WITH PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT

The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to investigate the efficacy of an 8-week yoga-based physical exercise program to improve mental and emotional well-being and consequently reduce burnout among teachers. We considered yoga because it is a discipline that enhances body awareness and encourages the contact with nature and the respect for every form of life, with a view to a more sustainable and greener global system. We recruited 40 professional educators (40–47 years), teachers in a public high school who reported perceiving signs of stress and emotional discomfort. We randomly assigned the 40 professional educators to either an experimental yoga practice (~60 min, twice a week) group (n = 20) or a control group (n = 20) that received a nonspecific training program (~60 min, twice a week). At baseline and after training we administered the Maslach Burnout Inventory: Educators Survey (MBI-ES) and the State Mindfulness Scale (SMS) to assess teachers’ perceived level of awareness and professional burnout. We found a significant Time × Group interaction for the MBI-ES and SMS, reflecting a meaningful experimental group improvement (p < 0.001). No significant pre–post changes were found in the control group. The results suggest that an 8-week yoga practice could aid teachers to achieve a greater body and emotional awareness and prevent professional burnout.

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Is Mindfulness and Compassion Training Advisable in Alleviating Professional Burnout Among Physicians? Dilemmas and Possibilities in Healthcare System

Przegląd Badań Edukacyjnych ◽

10.12775/pbe.2021.038 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 185-196

Author(s):

Krystyna Boroń Krupińska ◽

Małgorzata Sekułowicz

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Professional Burnout ◽

Inclusion Criteria ◽

Mental Strain ◽

Quality Of Medical Care ◽

The Impact ◽

Difficult Situations ◽

Medical Competence

The profession of a physician is a profession of social responsibility, in which medical competence should go hand in hand with non-medical competences. Mental strain, physical fatigue and entanglement in the administrative system can result in chronic stress and contribute to professional burnout, affecting both the well-being of medical staff and the quality of medical care provided. The Author’s intention is to promote mindfulness and compassion training that are considered to be protective and promoting the well-being of physicians resources in conditions of exposure to occupational stress. The analysis was based on 197 documents retrieved from the PubMed/Medline, Science Direct/Scopus databases in years 2008–2017, referring to the impact of mindfulness and compassion training on professional burnout among physicians. Only 21 papers retrieved from the scientific bases met inclusion criteria, referring to the impact of mindfulness and compassion training on professional burnout among physicians. Increasing concentration, improving memory, reducing the level of stress, anxiety and depression and strengthening kindness attitude are the basis for mindfulness and compassion training, which also supports the ability of unreactive responses to difficult situations, develops communication between the physician and the patient.

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PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS OF RESCUERS OF EMERCOM OF RUSSIA

Medico-Biological and Socio-Psychological Problems of Safety in Emergency Situations ◽

10.25016/2541-7487-2019-0-3-106-115 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 106-115

Author(s):

L. V. Karapetyan

Keyword(s):

Psychological Adaptation ◽

Well Being ◽

Professional Burnout ◽

Self Assessment ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Psychological Traits ◽

Psychological Determinants ◽

Professional Success ◽

Risk Appetite ◽

Expert Assessments

Relevance. Professional activities of rescuers not only involve a risk to their own lives, but also implies a high degree of responsibility for the lives and health of people affected by emergencies and accidents. Professional success and effectiveness of these specialists determine the outcome of rescue, search and other urgent activities. In this regard, determinants of professional effectiveness in rescuers need special attention and in depth study.Intention. To investigate the psychological determinants of professional success of rescuers.Methodology. The study involved 55 male rescuers aged 20 to 60 years, with different levels of education (from secondary professional to higher). Self assessment of the success of rescuers was determined by a 7 point scale via the question: “Do you consider yourself successful?” (7 – definitely Yes; 6 – Yes; 5 – rather Yes; 4 – hard to say, 50% to 50%; 3 – rather No; 2 – No; 1 – definitely No). Expert assessments of professional success were also performed. Psychological determinants of success were studied using psychodiagnostic techniques: “Socio psychological adaptation” by K. Rogers and R. Diamond, “Professional burnout” by K. Maslach, a questionnaire to identify risk appetite by G. Schubert, the test of resilience by S. Muddy, the scale of psychological well being by K. Ryff.Results and Discussion. With the help of cluster analysis of self assessments, the sample of rescuers is divided into groups with high, medium and low professional success. According to the correlation analysis, external and internal evaluations of success significantly correlated only in the group of rescuers with low self assessment of success. At the same time, expert assessments showed a negative trend, decreasing from a group with high to a group with professional success. Indicators of social and psychological adaptation, risk appetite, psychological well being and resilience also show negative trends. Meanwhile, indicators of professional burnout show positive trends and increase from the group with high professional success to the group with low professional success.Conclusion. Psychological traits, such as adaptability, resilience, psychological well being, risk appetite, resistance to professional burnout are the determinants of the success of rescuers and can be used as specific targets for psychological support of personnel of rescue units to improve their professional effectiveness.

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Prevalence of and Associations With Distress and Professional Burnout Among Otolaryngologists: Part II, Attending Physicians

Otolaryngology ◽

10.1177/0194599820959279 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 019459982095927

Author(s):

Matthew L. Carlson ◽

David P. Larson ◽

Erin K. O’Brien ◽

Christine M. Lohse ◽

Matthew L. Kircher ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Disorder ◽

Generalized Anxiety Disorder ◽

Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽

Well Being ◽

Generalized Anxiety ◽

Professional Burnout ◽

Cross Sectional Survey ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Hours Worked ◽

Attending Physicians

Objective To ascertain the prevalence of and associations with distress and professional burnout among academic otolaryngology attending physicians. Study Design Cross-sectional survey. Setting Twelve US academic otolaryngology programs. Methods A questionnaire was administered that encompassed sociodemographic and professional features, the Expanded Physician Well-being Index for distress, the 2-item Maslach Burnout Inventory for professional burnout, the Patient Health Questionnaire–2 screen for major depressive disorder, and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder–2 screen for generalized anxiety disorder. Results The survey response rate was 56% and included 186 attending physicians. The average respondent age was 47 years; 72% were men; 93% were married or partnered; and 86% had children. Distress was present in 40%, professional burnout in 26%, positive depression screening in 8%, and positive anxiety screening in 11%. In a univariable setting, age, hours worked in a typical week, nights on call in a typical week, and years of practice were significantly associated with distress, although in a multivariable setting, only hours worked in a typical week remained significantly associated with a positive Expanded Physician Well-being Index screen (odds ratio for each 10-hour increase, 2.61; 95% CI, 1.73-3.93; P < .001). In a univariable setting, hours worked in a typical week was significantly associated with a positive Maslach Burnout Inventory screen. Conclusion Distress or professional burnout occurs in more than a quarter of academic otolaryngology attending physicians, whereas the prevalence of depression or anxiety is approximately 10%. The number of hours worked per week had the strongest association with distress and burnout. These findings may be used to develop and implement programs to promote physician well-being and mitigate professional burnout.

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Nurses’ Intention to Leave the Organization: A Mediation Study of Professional Burnout and Engagement

The Spanish Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1017/sjp.2018.30 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Alexandra Marques-Pinto ◽

Élvio Henriques Jesus ◽

Aida Maria Oliveira Cruz Mendes ◽

Inês Fronteira ◽

Magda Sofia Roberto

Keyword(s):

Turnover Intentions ◽

Work Organization ◽

Intention To Leave ◽

Well Being ◽

Self Report ◽

Professional Burnout ◽

Turnover Process ◽

Complex Relationships ◽

Project Data ◽

Sampling Procedures

AbstractThe nature of the turnover process calls for the study of more complex relationships among variables beyond simple bivariate or multiple associations between predictors and turnover intentions. The present article aims to examine the predictive value of job demands and resources in the explanation of nurses’ intention to leave the organization and to test the mediating roles of professional burnout and engagement in these relationships, within a Portuguese nursing population. The research models were tested within the scope of the Registered Nurse Forecasting project. Data included the self-report questionnaires of 2,235 Portuguese nurses from 31 hospitals, collected through stratified random sampling procedures. The statistical analyses of the structural models showed that nurses’ participation in hospital affairs, a job resource at the work organization level, was the only significant predictor of nurses´ intention to leave the organization (β = –.45, p < .001). Analyses of the mediation models revealed that the emotional exhaustion symptoms of burnout (β = –.11, p < .001) and job engagement feelings (β = –.15, p < .001) were both significant mediators between nurses’ decisional involvement and their intentions to leave the organization. Results suggest that including nurses in decision-making processes regarding their professional practice policy and environment, and improving nurses’ professional well-being are two crucial strategies to reduce nurses’ turnover intentions.

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Professional burnout and its correlates in Polish donor transplant coordinators

Cell and Tissue Banking ◽

10.1007/s10561-019-09787-2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 535-544 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marcin Bury ◽

Hanna Rozenek ◽

Artur Kamiński ◽

Jarosław Czerwiński ◽

Stanisław Wójtowicz ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Job Stress ◽

Death Anxiety ◽

Death And Dying ◽

Job Demands ◽

Well Being ◽

Fear Of Death ◽

Professional Burnout ◽

Polish Version ◽

Positive Correlations ◽

Donor Transplant

Abstract Job demands-resources (JD-R) model of professional burnout states that job demands predict the feeling of exhaustion, and lack of job resources—disengagement from work. This research project investigated professional burnout and it correlates, including sex, death anxiety, and relationship status in 108 Polish donor transplant coordinators involved in organ, tissue, and cell transplantations. This study employed the Polish version of the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory which follows the JD-R model, the Psychosocial Working Conditions Questionnaire—a Polish instrument based on the model of job stress proposed by Karasek—and the Polish version of the Fear of Death and Dying Questionnaire. The results were suggestive of average levels of job stress and burnout in the studied population, with men being more disengaged than women. Participants who were in relationship had significantly higher levels of exhaustion than those who were single. Exhaustion was positively correlated with years of working as a transplant coordinator but not with participants’ age. Multiple negative correlations were detected between exhaustion/disengagement and different aspects of job control, social support, and well-being. Moreover, positive correlations between different components of fear of death and dying and exhaustion were detected. Our findings, linking fear of death and dying with some aspects of professional burnout in transplant coordinators, suggest that a pre-employment screening for the level of death anxiety in candidates for transplant coordinators could be useful as this job provides chronic exposure to mortality cues.

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ON-LINE LEARNING AND BURNOUT OF TEACHERS AND THE INTELLECTUAL HELPFULNESS OF STUDENTS

Psychological Applications and Trends 2021 ◽

10.36315/2021inpact094 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Aleksandra Jędryszek-Geisler ◽

Keyword(s):

Online Teaching ◽

Learning Experience ◽

Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽

Well Being ◽

Learning Material ◽

Professional Burnout ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

On Line ◽

Research Questions ◽

On Line Learning

"Introduction: The coronavirus pandemic has made a huge difference in everyday life around the world. In the education sector, there was a need to rapidly adapt teaching methods and learning to the remote system. In a short time, teachers and students had to switch to online teaching and learning. Research purpose: The purpose of the study is to identify (research questions): 1) Does teachers' well-being and experience in on-line teaching are related to professional burnout? 2) Does the well-being of students and their online learning experience correlate with intellectual helplessness? 3) Are there any differences between teachers and students in terms of well-being during distance learning? 4) Are there any differences in the intensity of teachers 'professional burnout and students' intellectual helplessness due to the duration of on-line learning? Material and methods: 1000 people have been tested so far. By the time of the conference, the number of people surveyed is likely to increase. The variables will be measured using the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the scale of intellectual helplessness of Grzegorz S?dek and personal records. Results: In order to obtain answers to the research questions, analysis of the correlation and differences between the studied groups will be carried out."

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PERSONALITY TRAITS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL BURNOUT SYNDROME IN MILITARY DOCTORS

Medico-Biological and Socio-Psychological Problems of Safety in Emergency Situations ◽

10.25016/2541-7487-2019-0-4-96-102 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 96-102

Author(s):

I. V. Fedotkina ◽

L. O. Marchenko ◽

L. V. Vaygacheva

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Medical Service ◽

Well Being ◽

Burnout Syndrome ◽

External Control ◽

Professional Activity ◽

Professional Burnout ◽

Positive Role ◽

Military Medical Academy ◽

Medical Academy

Relevance. Physical and psychological stressors of professional activity of military doctors can negatively affect both their personal well-being and professional reliability.Intention. To analyze the frequency of psychological signs of professional burnout and related deformations of professionally important personality traits in medical officers engaged in clinical and managerial activities.Methodology. The study was conducted in 2018-2019 at the research center of the Kirov Military Medical Academy (St. Petersburg). The object were the medical service officers (n = 203) engaged in clinical and managerial activitiesy, who arrived from the troops to apply for residency. The complex of psychodiagnostic methods included 50-point IPIP-version of “Markers of the big five” questionnaire by L. Goldberg; psychodiagnostic questionnaire “Deviance”, developed by the staff of the S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy; “Professional burnout” questionnaire by M.A. Dmitrieva and V.M. Snetkov; “Individual typological questionnaire” by L.N. Sobchik. To identify professionally important person qualities and their subsequent assessment, the officers underwent a survey. It was found out what personal qualities of managers, subordinates and colleagues are valuable (important), or, conversely, interfere with the professional activity. The results were systematized using content analysis.Results and Discussion. The conducted psychodiagnostic examination of medical officers showed that both managerial and clinical activities in the troops can contribute to emotional fatigue, increasing indifference, deformation of contacts with the military, a negative assessment of oneself and one’s professional capabilities. Professional burnout signs were found in 9.4 and 9.3 % of clinical specialists and medical platoon commanders (chiefs of unit medical service), respectively. Statistically significant interrelations are established between professional burnout indicators and such relatively steady traits as excessive propensity to risk, search of thrills, autoand hetero-aggression, inadequate self-assessment, isolation, internal conflicts. The higher need for external control and motivation in officers with more pronounced signs of professional burnout were established.Conclusion. The relevance of professional burnout screening of military doctors and medical units commanders is substantiated. Timely detection of adverse personality deformities caused by professional burnout and the development of measures to eliminate the negative states can play a positive role in maintaining the health and professional longevity of medical professionals.

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Prevalence of and Associations With Distress and Professional Burnout Among Otolaryngologists: Part I, Trainees

Otolaryngology ◽

10.1177/0194599820959273 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 019459982095927

Author(s):

David P. Larson ◽

Matthew L. Carlson ◽

Christine M. Lohse ◽

Erin K. O’Brien ◽

Matthew L. Kircher ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Anxiety Disorder ◽

Odds Ratio ◽

Depressive Disorders ◽

Multivariable Analysis ◽

Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽

Female Gender ◽

Well Being ◽

Work Place ◽

Professional Burnout ◽

Attending Physicians

Objective To assess the prevalence of distress and burnout in otolaryngology trainees, including associations with relevant sociodemographic and professional factors, and to compare these results with those of attending otolaryngologists. Study Design A cross-sectional survey of trainees and attending physicians. Setting Twelve academic otolaryngology programs. Methods Distress and burnout were measured with the Expanded Physician Well-being Index and the 2-item Maslach Burnout Inventory. The Patient Health Questionnaire–2 and Generalized Anxiety Disorder–2 were used to screen for depressive disorders and anxiety disorders, respectively. Associations with sociodemographic and professional characteristics were assessed. Results Of the 613 surveys administered to trainees and attending physicians, 340 were completed (56%). Among 154 trainees, distress was present in 49%, professional burnout in 35%, positive depressive disorder screening in 5%, and positive anxiety disorder screening in 16%. In univariable analysis, female gender, hours worked in a typical week (HW), and nights on call in a typical week (NOC) were significantly associated with distress. In multivariable analysis, female gender (odds ratio, 3.91; P = .001) and HW (odds ratio for each 10 HW, 1.89; P = .003) remained significantly associated with distress. Female gender, HW, and NOC were significantly associated with burnout univariably, although only HW (odds ratio for each 10 HW, 1.92; P = .003) remained significantly associated with burnout in a multivariable setting. Attending physicians had less distress than trainees ( P = .02) and felt less callous and less emotionally hardened than trainees ( P < .001). Conclusion Otolaryngology trainees experience significant work-place distress (49%) and burnout (35%). Gender, HW, and NOC had the strongest associations with distress and burnout.

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Organizational Wellness and Macro Social Work Practice

10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.1420 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Erlene Grise-Owens ◽

J. Jay Miller ◽

Larry W. Owens

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Social Workers ◽

Work Practice ◽

Well Being ◽

Social Work Practice ◽

Staff Turnover ◽

Professional Burnout ◽

Macro Practice ◽

Macro Social Work ◽

Organizational Wellness

The profession of social work increasingly experiences the damaging impact of professional burnout, staff turnover, and compromised services. Organizational wellness involves planful efforts to address these concerns and promote employee well-being. A rationale for organizational wellness is articulated, including its value for social work. The evolving paradigm of a holistic, systemic approach to organizational wellness is then discussed. Next, how social work is ideally situated to lead organizational wellness efforts is detailed as an arena of macro practice and as providing a framework for designing and developing an organizational wellness culture. Using social work competencies, social workers can use this framework to provide leadership in conceptualizing, planning, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining organizational wellness. Further critical considerations underscore how this leadership promotes the profession’s mission, supports the profession’s viability, and establishes a vital arena for ongoing macro practice.

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