Burnout and resilience in doctors in clinical and preclinical departments in a tertiary care teaching and dedicated COVID-19 hospital.

Burnout COVID-19 clinical doctors preclinical resilience

Journal

Industrial psychiatry journal
ISSN: 0972-6748
Titre abrégé: Ind Psychiatry J
Pays: India
ID NLM: 101547239

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Oct 2021
Historique:
received: 13 02 2021
revised: 17 05 2021
accepted: 21 06 2021
entrez: 15 12 2021
pubmed: 16 12 2021
medline: 16 12 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered our life. Doctors more so than the general public because of their involvement in managing the COVID-infected individuals, some of them 24/7 end in burnout. Burnout in doctors can lead to reduced care of patients, increased medical errors, and poor health. Burnout among frontline health-care workers has become a major problem in this ongoing epidemic. On the other hand, doctors in preclinical department have a lack of interaction with patients, with not much nonclinical professional work to boot, find the profession less gratifying which perhaps increase their stress level. The aim was to study the prevalence of burnout and measure resilience in doctors in clinical and in preclinical departments. This observational, cross-sectional, comparative study was carried out in a tertiary care teaching hospital and COVID care center. By purposive sampling 60 preclinical and 60 clinical doctors in a tertiary health care center were included in the study. After obtaining the Institutional Ethics Committee approval and informed consent, the doctors were administered a self made socio-demographic questionnaire, the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. Doctors were given a self-made questionnaire, the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. The prevalence of burnout was seen more in clinical doctors (55.47) and the resilience was observed more in preclinical doctors (88.9). Resident doctors are a major force to combat COVID-19 as frontline health workers; hence, one can visualize burnout amongst them. On an individual basis, the work-related burnout was severely high in the clinical group owing to the workload which has been corresponding to a number of western studies. Nonclinical department doctors from pathology, community medicine, and microbiology did show burnout but showed a greater score in resilience. Psychological resilience has been identified as a component in preventing burnout. Therapy sessions can be used in clinical doctors facing burnout to build up their resilience.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered our life. Doctors more so than the general public because of their involvement in managing the COVID-infected individuals, some of them 24/7 end in burnout. Burnout in doctors can lead to reduced care of patients, increased medical errors, and poor health. Burnout among frontline health-care workers has become a major problem in this ongoing epidemic. On the other hand, doctors in preclinical department have a lack of interaction with patients, with not much nonclinical professional work to boot, find the profession less gratifying which perhaps increase their stress level.
AIM OBJECTIVE
The aim was to study the prevalence of burnout and measure resilience in doctors in clinical and in preclinical departments.
MATERIALS AND METHODS METHODS
This observational, cross-sectional, comparative study was carried out in a tertiary care teaching hospital and COVID care center. By purposive sampling 60 preclinical and 60 clinical doctors in a tertiary health care center were included in the study. After obtaining the Institutional Ethics Committee approval and informed consent, the doctors were administered a self made socio-demographic questionnaire, the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. Doctors were given a self-made questionnaire, the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory, and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale.
RESULTS RESULTS
The prevalence of burnout was seen more in clinical doctors (55.47) and the resilience was observed more in preclinical doctors (88.9).
DISCUSSION CONCLUSIONS
Resident doctors are a major force to combat COVID-19 as frontline health workers; hence, one can visualize burnout amongst them. On an individual basis, the work-related burnout was severely high in the clinical group owing to the workload which has been corresponding to a number of western studies. Nonclinical department doctors from pathology, community medicine, and microbiology did show burnout but showed a greater score in resilience. Psychological resilience has been identified as a component in preventing burnout.
CONCLUSION CONCLUSIONS
Therapy sessions can be used in clinical doctors facing burnout to build up their resilience.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34908668
doi: 10.4103/0972-6748.328792
pii: IPJ-30-69
pmc: PMC8611565
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

S69-S74

Informations de copyright

Copyright: © 2021 Industrial Psychiatry Journal.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

There are no conflicts of interest.

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Auteurs

V Pooja (V)

Department of Psychiatry, Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Dr. D Y Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Aslam Khan (A)

Department of Psychiatry, Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Dr. D Y Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Jaideep Patil (J)

Department of Psychiatry, Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Dr. D Y Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Bhushan Chaudhari (B)

Department of Psychiatry, Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Dr. D Y Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Suprakash Chaudhury (S)

Department of Psychiatry, Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Dr. D Y Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Daniel Saldanha (D)

Department of Psychiatry, Dr. D.Y. Patil Medical College, Dr. D Y Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

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