Background: Previous studies indicate that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and control beliefs can affect burnout and their unique role in this situation has been examined, but fewer studies have examined their combined role in adolescent's academic burnout following traumatic events. Objective: This study examined the combined effect of PTSD symptom severity and control beliefs on academi...

Burnout syndrome involves emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and reduced personal achievement (PA).(1,2) Burnout is associated with absenteeism, physical illnesses, emotional problems, poor work performance and negative attitudes(3) and may result in decreased quality of medical care. The most widely used burnout syndrome measurement tool is the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI).(4...

BACKGROUND Healthcare has become a major expense. Burnout and its connection with psychological and physical health is well researched, yet little research has been done on the connection between burnout and financial outcomes, specifically as indicated by the costs incurred by medical aid providers as a result of members' claims. OBJECTIVE To investigate the connection between employee burno...

Leaders engaging in health-promoting leadership can influence their employees' health directly by showing health awareness or indirectly by changing working conditions. With health-promoting leadership, leaders are able to support a healthy working environment by providing resource-oriented working conditions for their employees to support their health. Changing working conditions in a health-s...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of burnout and depression in anesthesiology residents has not been determined. It is also unknown whether anesthesiology resident burnout/depression may affect patient care and safety. The primary objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of burnout and depression in anesthesiology residents in the United States. We hypothesized that residents at high ris...

Burnout has received increased research attention in recent years. During the period of 1995-2002, annually about 150 articles that concerned burnout have appeared in journals covered by PsychInfo. As evident, burnout has been a major focus of researchers' efforts. A recent review of the area of burnout (Schuafeli & Enzmann, 1998) found about 5,500 entries with burnout as a key word between 197...

The concept of burnout remains enigmatic since it is only determined by behavioral characteristics. Moreover, the differential diagnosis with depression and chronic fatigue syndrome is difficult. EEG-related variables in 13 patients diagnosed with burnout syndrome were compared with 13 healthy comparison subjects in order to explore the existence of neurobiological markers for burnout. Burnout ...

INTRODUCTION There is no consistent definition of burnout. It is neither a defined diagnosis in ICD-10 nor in DSM-IV. Yet it is diagnosed by office-based doctors and clinicians. Mainly due to reimbursement reasons, diagnoses like depression are used instead of burnout diagnoses. Therefore burnout has a very high individual, social and economic impact. OBJECTIVES How is burnout diagnosed? Whic...

To the Editor: Elmariah et al longitudinally assessed burnout among internal medicine residents after the “2011 duty hour changes.” The authors used an abbreviated 5-item version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory to assess burnout, relying on a 5-point scale (from 1 = Disagree strongly to 5 = Agree strongly). In order to estimate burnout’s prevalence, the authors opted for a cutoff score of 3, c...

OBJECTIVE Although the relationship between burnout and cortisol levels has been examined in previous studies, the results are mixed. By adopting a design in which we attempted to overcome important limitations of earlier research, the purpose of the present study was to improve the understanding of the biological underpinnings of burnout and to further the knowledge about the relationship betw...