Burnout Among Women Physicians: a Call to Action

Chesak, Sherry S.; Cutshall, Susanne M.; Anderson, Alexandra; Pulos, Bridget P.; Moeschler, Susan M.; Bhagra, Anjali

doi:10.1007/s11886-020-01300-6

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“…The higher prevalence of personal burnout symptoms among female GPs may be explained by additional tasks, e.g. household and childrearing [ 81 ]. This assumption is supported by findings that indicate a poor work-life balance among female physicians [ 14 , 85 ].The age variable showed statistically significant associations with personal and work-related burnout.…”

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Burnout, satisfaction and happiness among German general practitioners (GPs): A cross-sectional survey on health resources and stressors

Werdecker

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2021

PLoS ONE

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Well-being is a major issue among health care professionals, especially physicians. Less job satisfaction and impaired health can have an impact on health care quality. Our aim was to examine the association of stressors (illegitimate tasks) and health related resources (work-related sense of coherence; recovery experience) with life satisfaction, happiness, job satisfaction and burnout among German general practitioners (GPs). We conducted a cross-sectional survey among general medical practices in Germany. Main outcome measures were life satisfaction, happiness (Subjective Happiness Scale), job satisfaction (Work Satisfaction Scale) and burnout (Copenhagen Burnout Inventory). 548 GPs from across Germany participated (53.6% males, 45.6% females; mostly representative of German GPs). One third (35.2%) of the participants reported a high prevalence of personal, and one quarter (26.5%) indicated a high prevalence of work-related burnout symptoms. Illegitimate tasks are negatively associated with life and job satisfaction and are positively associated with personal, work-related and patient-related burnout among GPs. Work-SoC and recovery experience are positively associated with life satisfaction, happiness, and job satisfaction and are negatively associated with personal, work-related and patient-related burnout. Female physicians have a higher job satisfaction than male physicians. Being female and working as an employed physician is associated with a higher prevalence of personal burnout symptoms. GPs working in a group practice are happier and more satisfied with their job than GPs in single practices. Personal, work-related and patient-related burnout symptoms are stronger in GPs working in a single practice than in GPs in group practices. Our results highlight that Work-SoC, recovery experience and illegitimate tasks are important for creating work-related well-being among GPs. Introducing health promotion activities which aim to strengthen recovery experience and Work-SoC, as well as interventions to restructure tasks, may increase life satisfaction, happiness, and job satisfaction and reduce burnout symptoms in this health care profession.

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Burnout, satisfaction and happiness among German general practitioners (GPs): A cross-sectional survey on health resources and stressors

Werdecker

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2021

PLoS ONE

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“…25 Controlling for specialty, women physicians continue to be underpaid compared to men 26,27 and burnout for women continues to be more prevalent. 28,29 The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that a staggering 41% of full-time women faculty left their position in academic medicine in 2018. 16 Systemic implicit bias pervades medicine as it does our entire society.…”

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Women in Academic Family Medicine

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Gilchrist

2021

Fam Med

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“…This study aimed to build off the findings of that study, showing a correlation between stress and exercise. Chesak et al (2015) tried to identify a strategy to reduce stress, but wasn't unique to new graduate nurses, only nurses new to that department. Their findings failed to show a statistically significant difference between the groups who completed the SMART training versus the control group.…”

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“…Wu et al (2012) found that higher levels of stress were correlated with intentions to leave their employer, and even nursing. Chesak et al (2015) attempted a resiliency intervention, geared towards reducing stress in new nurses. However, their quantitative findings showed no statistically significant difference between the intervention and control groups.…”

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“…Rather, they acknowledged the problem of stress in new nurses, and all identified it as an issue that needs to be addressed. Some of the studies attempted to intervene, but none found specific behaviors that helped, only general lifestyle beliefs and "healthy lifestyle" behaviors (Chesak et al, 2015;Melnyk et al, 2013;Spector et al, 2015;Wu et al, 2012).…”

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