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. 2016 Sep 8;8(9):e771.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.771.

Burnout Syndrome Among Medical Practitioners Across India: A Questionnaire-Based Survey

Deepak Langade  1 , Pranav D Modi  2 , Yazad F Sidhwa  3 , Namita A Hishikar  3 , Amit S Gharpure  4 , Kalpana Wankhade  5 , Jayshree Langade  6 , Kedar Joshi  7
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Burnout Syndrome Among Medical Practitioners Across India: A Questionnaire-Based Survey

Deepak Langade et al. Cureus. .

Abstract

Background and objectives: Excessive and prolonged work-related stress has always been a cause for burnout among healthcare professionals. This has led to emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion. This survey was conducted to assess the burnout among medical practitioners using the abbreviated Maslach Burnout Inventory (aMBI) and Burnout Clinical Subtype Questionnaire (BCSQ-12) scales.

Materials and methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 482 registered medical practitioners across India. A questionnaire consisting of 25 socio-demographic and occupational questions related to aMBI and BCSQ-12 scales was used to assess the burnout. The distribution of responses for each variable was examined using frequencies and percentages among the subgroups to find out the burnout levels of various components of the scales.

Results: High burnout levels were uniformly recorded for the entire population. For the aMBI, 45.02% (n = 217) and 65.98% (n = 318) of the participants scored high on the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization scales, respectively, whereas 87.14% (n = 420) scored low on the personal accomplishment scale and 62.86% (n = 303) and 11.41% (n = 55) had medium and low scores on the satisfaction with the medical practice scale. The BCSQ-12 scale showed the mean values of 15.89, 11.56, and 10.28 on a scale of 28 for overload, lack of development, and neglect subtypes, respectively, whereas, satisfaction with the financial compensation item showed a mean value of 3.79 on a scale of seven. All these values indicate high levels of burnout.

Conclusion: The results suggest high levels of burnout in all domains of aMBI and BCSQ-12 scales in all the occupational and socio-demographic groups of medical practitioners and warrant immediate actions to address this issue.

Keywords: ambi; bcsq-12; burnout; burnout syndrome; chronic stress; india; medical practitioners; mental health; physician health.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1. Percentage distribution of participants according to high, medium or low scores obtained on various scales of MBI
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