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. 2021 Oct 3;18(19):10413.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph181910413.

The Experience of a Single NHS England Trust on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Junior and Middle-Grade Doctors: What Is Next?

Antonios Revythis  1 , Sidrah Shah  1 , Synthia Enyioma  1 , Aruni Ghose  1 , Meenash Patel  1 , Afroditi Karathanasi  1 , Elisabet Sanchez  1 , Stergios Boussios  1   2   3
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The Experience of a Single NHS England Trust on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Junior and Middle-Grade Doctors: What Is Next?

Antonios Revythis et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly affected all national healthcare systems at different levels. In countries heavily hit by the pandemic, it was reported that healthcare workers were asked to work long hours, had increased workload, were faced with difficult decisions, and that the resources were stretched. As such, the COVID-19 pandemic would create the perfect storm for burnout in healthcare workers. Within this context, we conducted a survey in a district general hospital in Southeast England. We focused on doctors in training, in different specialties. This survey included parts of the Maslach Burnout Inventory for healthcare professionals, along with other relevant questions, such as the financial impact and seeking of psychological support. The results showed moderate levels of emotional exhaustion, but high levels of personal satisfaction, a positive impact on doctors finances and very low levels of seeking support.

Keywords: COVID-19; Corona; SARS-CoV-2; burnout; coronavirus; health personnel; medical staff.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no financial involvement with any organisation or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript.

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Figure 1
Workload experienced by doctors in their normal working day during the first and second waves of COVID-19.
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Figure 2
Workload experienced by doctors during their on-call shifts in the first and second waves of COVID-19.
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Scheme 1
Graphic representation of the mean of the three Maslach Burnout Inventory results with standard deviation.
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