Prevalence of burnout and its relationship to health status and social support in more than 1000 subspecialty anesthesiologists

Background Physician burnout may be at ‘epidemic’ proportions due to factors associated with modern healthcare practice and technology. Practice attributes vary appreciably among subspecialists. Understanding incidence its could illuminate potential causes interventions. We evaluated burnFout, mental physical health, social support coping skills in acute chronic pain physicians pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists. Methods administered the Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS), a two-item self-identified measure, Veterans RAND 12-item Health Social Support Personal Coping subspecialty society members practicing management, anesthesiology anesthesiology. Multivariable regression analysis compared groups, adjusted prevalence was an all-physician employed general population sample. Results Among 1303 participants (response rates 21.6%–35.6% groups), 43.4% met established criteria (range 30.0%–62.3%). Chronic had significantly worse scores (unadjusted) than other three groups of anesthesiologists, comparator group group. Mental health inversely correlated emotional exhaustion depersonalization all groups. Self-identified full MBI-HSS (R=0.54; positive predictive value 0.939 (0.917, 0.955)). Physicians’ for personal accomplishment were higher norms. Conclusions This study provides data on demographic, subspecialist anesthesiologists greater The metric performed well attractive alternative MBI-HSS.