SynthesisInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2023
Organizational interventions and occupational burnout: a meta-analysis with focus on exhaustion.
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- Person-directed burnout intervention for nurses: A systematic review of psychoeducational approaches.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Occupational burnout among obstetrics and gynaecology residents: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Improving the Psychosocial Work Environment to Prevent Sickness Absence and Turnover in Nurses: A Systematic Review.Journal of nursing management · 2025Pooled it
- Prevalence and the associated factors of burnout among the critical healthcare professionals during the post-pandemic era: a multi-institutional survey in Taiwan with a systematic review of the Asian literatures.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Psychometric validity of the Shirom-Melamed Burnout Measure and the Burnout Assessment Tool: a systematic review.Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju · 2022Pooled it
- The effect of group clinical supervision on the burnout levels among midwives: a cluster randomised controlled trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Trial
- The Impact of Implementing Virtual Diabetes Group Visits on Staff and Provider Wellbeing, Job Satisfaction, and Burnout: A Mixed Methods Analysis.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Trial
- Burnout and psychosocial working conditions in a multidisciplinary hospital radiology team: a cross-sectional study using the job demands-resources framework.Insights into imaging · 2026Article
- Sociodemographic, lifestyle, work- and health-related correlates of mental health outcomes: a large-scale cross-sectional web-based study of 1.19 million adult internet users in Poland (2020-2024).BMC public health · 2026Article
- Lifestyle influence on burnout syndrome in religious leaders in Peru.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Beyond the Immediate Impact: Burnout, Psychological Distress, and Workforce Retention Among Healthcare Workers One Year After the Türkiye Earthquakes.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Effect of Workplace Pressure and Experience on Burnout in Embryologists Working in Assisted Reproduction in Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Validity Evidence for the Secondary Symptoms of the Burnout Assessment Tool: A Brazilian Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Evaluation of the effects of group reflection sessions on burnout complaints in medical residents.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Pilots' and cabin crews' psychosocial work environment in relation to mental health and fitness-to-fly safety behaviors: latent profile analyses.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Challenging the prescientific frameworks of criminal justice: neurobiology and criminolytic interventions in the legalome era.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- The interplay between work overload, trait motivation, and emotional exhaustion on job satisfaction and happiness.Applied psychology research · 2026Article
- Doing it together: Qualitative study on barriers and facilitators to dyadic internet interventions for interrole conflict.Internet interventions · 2025Article
- Designing the LAGOM burnout prevention program: a collaborative approach with healthcare professionals using intervention mapping.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Neural Correlates of Burnout Syndrome Based on Electroencephalography (EEG)-A Mechanistic Review and Discussion of Burnout Syndrome Cognitive Bias Theory.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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Abstract
purposeTo assess whether organizational interventions are effective to prevent or reduce exhaustion, the core dimension of occupational burnout.
methodsWe searched in PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Library databases randomized and non-randomized controlled trials conducted among active workers and reporting the outcome as exhaustion score. We calculated the effect sizes using the pre-test-post-test control group design's estimate. We used the random effects model in meta-analysis and Cochrane collaboration's tool for interventions to assess the risk of bias. Overall quality of evidence was appraised using the GRADE.
resultsFrom the 2425 identified records, we assessed 228 full texts for eligibility and included 11 original articles describing 13 studies, 11 on organizational interventions, and 2 on combined inventions. The interventions were participatory (n = 9), focused on workload (n = 2), or on work schedule (n = 2). The overall effect size was - 0.30 ((95% CI = - 0.42; - 0.18), I
conclusionInterventions at combined level in workplaces could be helpful in preventing exhaustion. However, the evidence is still limited, due to a high heterogeneity between studies, bias potential, and small number of eligible studies. This calls for further research, using workload interventions at organizational level, especially in sectors with high risk of job stress and exhaustion.
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