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. 2023 Jan-Mar;27(1):59-66.
doi: 10.4103/ijoem.ijoem_221_22. Epub 2023 Mar 31.

Professional Stress and Burnout Syndrome During the Covid Pandemic in the Medical Field

Kiril S Slaveykov  1 , Valentin K Stoyanov  2 , Kalina Z Trifonova  2
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Professional Stress and Burnout Syndrome During the Covid Pandemic in the Medical Field

Kiril S Slaveykov et al. Indian J Occup Environ Med. 2023 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

Context: The contemporary workplace creates a challenge toward physicians and their teams. They are forced into a situation, in which to be competitive they must have skills outside of their medical specialty, such as health management, pedagogy, and information and communication technologies.

Aim: To analyze the level of stress and burnout among the medical employees in the hospital care.

Settings and design: Healthcare professionals from three private, municipal, and regional hospitals filled a questionnaire in the time period January-March 2021.

Methods and material: An adapted Maslach Burnout Inventory 55 question questionnaire was used and analyzed.

Statistical analysis used: One-way ANOVA, correlation, and multiple regression analysis in SPSS.

Results: We identified high levels of emotional exhaustion (>62% report high signs or above), high levels of depersonalization (>70% report signs of depersonalization), and low levels of personal accomplishment (<39% have below average sense of achievements).

Conclusions: Despite the physicians and their teams reporting high levels of workload and stress, the satisfaction from work has not diminished and the evaluation for the quality of provided work is still high. Additional research into the topic is required with focus on comparison between hospital physicians and primary care physicians.

Keywords: Burnout; medical professionals; stress.

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Conflict of interest statement

There are no conflicts of interest.

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Association between gender and stress from working with people
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Association between gender and understanding patients’ feelings with ease
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Association between marital status and ease of dealing with patients’ problems
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Association between profession and energy coming to work
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Association between profession and energy during work
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Association between profession and energy at the end of work
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Association between specialty and sense of achievement
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Association between specialty and ease of dealing with patients’ problems
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Association between workplace and feelings of refreshment after working with patients
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Association between giving day/night shifts and feelings of pressure from superiors
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Association between giving weekend duty and changes in behavior
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Correlation between independent variables and burnout syndrome in its subcategories
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