ArticleFrontiers in medicine2026
Work-related distress and professional quality of life in a medical-school workforce: a primary-care occupational-health perspective.
Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Work-related distress may present in primary care through nonspecific physical, psychological, or functional complaints. This study assessed professional quality of life in a United Arab Emirates medical-school workforce through primary-care and occupational-health perspectives. Methods: A cross-sectional electronic survey was conducted among employees of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, between October 2025 and February 2026. The sampling frame comprised 373 employees. Professional quality of life was assessed using the Professional Quality of Life Scale, Version 5. Descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, subgroup comparisons, correlations, and sensitivity analyses were performed. Results: Of 373 eligible employees, 162 responded to the survey invitation, 140 were retained after consent confirmation, 109 reached the ProQOL section, and 108 had usable ProQOL subscale scores. Faculty members accounted for 56.9% of respondents and non-faculty employees for 43.1%. Mean scores were 38.88 (SD = 5.70) for compassion satisfaction, 22.35 (SD = 5.13) for burnout, and 23.67 (SD = 6.24) for secondary traumatic stress. Compassion satisfaction was mostly moderate or high, burnout was low or moderate, and secondary traumatic stress was mostly low or moderate. Cronbach's alpha coefficients were 0.857, 0.747, and 0.838, respectively. No statistically significant differences were detected between faculty and non-faculty employees across ProQOL domains. Compassion satisfaction was strongly and negatively correlated with burnout ( Conclusion: Professional meaning was generally preserved, but workload-related strain remained evident. The findings support attention in primary care to occupational context, functioning, recovery, and work-life boundaries. They also support coordinated consideration of workload and access to support by institutional leadership, human resources, and occupational-health services. These implications are hypothesis-generating because specific job demands, resources, and intervention effects were not measured.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.