ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2020
The Burnout Phenomenon: A Résumé After More Than 15,000 Scientific Publications.
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- Biological Markers of Burnout Severity: A Systematic Review.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2026Pooled it
- Holistic Assessment of Factors Associated with Exhaustion, the Main Symptom of Burnout: A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Healthcare consumption among patients with stress-related exhaustion: a register-based study in Swedish primary care.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2026Article
- Recommendations for the Support of Clinical Facilitators' Mental Well-Being in Undergraduate Health Professions Education: A Scoping Review.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · 2026Article
- Systematic review and conceptualisation of disaffection for its accompaniment.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Between Depression and Alienation: Burnout as a Translator Category for Critical Theories.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2025Article
- The tip of the iceberg: Rethinking burnout through social and organisational lenses.Medical education · 2025Article
- Burnout or Depression? Investigating Conceptual and Empirical Distinctions in a High-Stress Occupational Group.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The impact of academic burnout on academic achievement: a moderated chain mediation effect from the Stimulus-Organism-Response perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Factors influencing burnout, stress levels, and coping strategies among nursing staff in intensive care units.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Attitudes toward organizational change and their association with exhaustion in a sample of Italian police workers.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Occurrence of Professional Burnout and Severity of Depressive Symptoms among Cardiac Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Spirituality, Work Culture, and Burnout: The Need for an Extended Health and Disease Model.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The "burnout" phenomenon, supposedly caused by work related stress, is a challenge for academic psychiatry both conceptually and professionally. Since the first description of burnout in 1974 until today, more than 140 definitions have been suggested. Burnout-symptomatology's main characteristic, the experience of exhaustion, is unspecific. Different development-models of burnout were proposed, assumed to depict a quasi-natural process. These could not be confirmed empirically. An expert consensus on the diagnostic criteria and the conceptual location, whether as an independent disorder or as a risk, could not be agreed on. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of burnout in the ICD-11 is considered to be categorized as a work-related disorder. Psychiatric research on the burnout-phenomenon ignores problems of definition resulting from different perspectives: It may meet societal expectations, but does not fulfill scientific criteria, and therefore is not suitable to establish an objective diagnosis and treatment. Parallel detection of ICD/DSM diagnoses from an expert perspective and subjective perturbation models are considered appropriate.
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