ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2023
Prevalence and determinants of Italian physicians' burnout in the "post-COVID-19" era.
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- Prevalence and correlates of depression, anxiety, and burnout among physicians and postgraduate medical trainees: a scoping review of recent literature.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Prevalence and determinants of burnout among South African doctors during the COVID-19 pandemic.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeSeveral studies investigated prevalence and determinants of physicians' burnout during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, but only a few during the chronic phase of the pandemic. This study thus aimed to examine this topic referring to the "post-COVID-19 era", defined as a chronic and likely-to-be endemic status quo.
methodsA cross-sectional, online survey (November 2021-January 2022) was addressed to physicians in Lombardia (Northern Italy). Besides socio-demographic and COVID-19-related data, measures of personal, work- and patient-related burnout (Copenhagen Burnout Inventory; CBI), depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-8), anxiety (General Anxiety Disorder-7), and self-efficacy (General Self-Efficacy Scale) were collected. Linear/generalized linear models were run to test associations/predictions of interest.
resultsAmong the 958 respondents, burnout symptoms were clinically significant in 18.5% of them. Predictive models showed that female sex (OR = 0.73, 95% CI 0.42-1.27), younger age (OR = 0.94, 95% CI 0.59-1.48), shorter job tenure (OR = 1.01, 95% CI 0.62-1.65), trainee status (OR = 1.41, 95% CI 1.16-7.10), higher PHQ-8 (OR = 1.260, 95% CI 1.16-1.37), and GAD-7 scores (OR = 1.19, 95% CI 1.10-1.30) increased the risk to suffer from clinical burnout. COVID-19-related variables were mostly not related/associated to burnout levels.
conclusionIn Italy, physicians' burnout is moderately prevalent also in the chronic phase of the pandemic, with its determinants being more intrinsic than environmental. The development of effective interventions is needed to help physicians cope with the new challenges of their job.
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