SynthesisJournal of general internal medicine2019
Physicians' Perspectives About Burnout: a Systematic Review and Metasynthesis.
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- Efficacy and Acceptability of Digital and Web-Based Interventions for Stress and Burnout Among Physicians: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- Systematic review of the relationship between burn-out and spiritual health in doctors.BMJ open · 2023Pooled it
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- A systematic review of interventions aiming to improve newly-qualified doctors' wellbeing in the United Kingdom.BMC psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Predictors of Occupational Burnout: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
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- NHS healthcare worker experiences of moral injury: a follow-up qualitative study in England using reflexive thematic analysis.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Burnout among emergency department healthcare workers in Palestine and Türkiye: a cross-sectional comparative study.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Using lifestyle medicine to treat patients can reduce practitioner burnout: a conceptual model derived from healthcare staff interviews.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Love, Compassion, and Personality as Predictors of Burnout in Nurses: A Path Analysis Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- 'I would have blamed myself, but coming back, I can see that it wasn't me': A qualitative, descriptive phenomenological analysis of doctors' reflective processes in recovery from burnout and mental crisis.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- Under the covert norm: a qualitative study on the role of residency culture in burnout.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of anesthesiologists toward enhanced recovery after surgery and day surgery anesthesia management.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Article
- Understanding burnout in physician assistants/associates through the lens of Conservation of Resources theory.Health affairs scholar · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the Czech moral injury symptom scale.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Organisational factors associated with burnout among emergency and internal medicine physicians: a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundDoctors' burnout is a major public health issue with important harmful effects on both the healthcare system and physicians' mental health. Qualitative studies are relevant in this context, focusing as they do on the views of the physicians of how they live and understand burnout in their own professional field.
objectiveTo explore physicians' perspectives on burnout by applying a metasynthesis approach, including a systematic literature review and analysis of the qualitative studies. DATA SOURCES: Medline, PsycINFO, EMBASE, and SSCI from the earliest available date to June 2018 REVIEW
methodsThis metasynthesis follows thematic synthesis procedures. Four databases were systematically searched for qualitative studies reporting doctors' perspectives on burnout. Article quality was assessed with the Critical Appraisal Skills Program. Thematic analysis was used to identify key themes and synthesize them.
resultsThirty-three articles were included, covering data from more than 1589 medical doctors (68 residents and 1521 physicians). Two themes emerged from the analysis: (1) stress factors promoting burnout-ranked as organizational, then contextual and relational, and finally individual-factors and (2) protective factors, which were above all individual but also relational and organizational.
conclusionsThe individual and organizational levels are abundantly described in the literature, as risk factors and interventions. Our results show that doctors identify numerous organizational factors as originators of potential burnout, but envision protecting themselves individually. Relational factors, in a mediate position, should be addressed as an original axis of protection and intervention for battling doctors' burnout.
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