The Associations Between Long Working Hours, Physical Inactivity, and Burnout

Hu, Nien-Chih; Chen, Jong-Dar; Cheng, Tsun‐Jen

doi:10.1097/jom.0000000000000715

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“…This results are consistent with the literature that points to the high psychosocial risk at work of bus drivers in comparison with other occupational groups [3,4], and with the evidence on the association between work stress, burnout, and negative organizational outcomes [10,37]. In particular, the aforementioned findings support the evidence that job strain and burnout are risk factors for road incidents in the public bus transport systems [5,8,47], occupation in which long working hours (as observed in the results) explain a risk increasing in terms of objective risk factors at work, such as in other high vulnerable groups [74][75][76].…”

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confidence: 76%

Burnout, Occupational Stress, Health and Road Accidents among Bus Drivers: Barriers and Challenges for Prevention

Useche¹,

Alonso²,

Cendales³

et al. 2017

J Environ Occup Sci

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confidence: 76%

Burnout, Occupational Stress, Health and Road Accidents among Bus Drivers: Barriers and Challenges for Prevention

Useche¹,

Alonso²,

Cendales³

et al. 2017

J Environ Occup Sci

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“…One study reported that stress levels of female managers were as high after work as during work, whereas among male managers, stress levels rapidly decreased when the working day ended [7]. Even when physical inactivity was controlled for in the analysis, gender differences existed in the presentation of burnout [8]. Exhaustion was consistently found to be more prevalent among women than men [9].…”

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confidence: 99%

Work Hours and Difficulty in Leaving Work on Time in Relation to Work-to-Family Conflict and Burnout Among Female Workers in Taiwan

Huang

Fang

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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The present study explores the relations between work hours and the difficulty in leaving work on time to both work-to-family conflict (WFC) and burnout among female workers in Taiwan. A cross-sectional research design and questionnaire were employed to obtain the research data. In total, 738 full-time female workers took part in the study. The results of regression analyses showed that when age, marital status, economic status, occupation, parental status, and housework responsibilities were controlled, more work hours were positively associated with WFC and burnout. When the difficulty in leaving work on time was also considered in the analysis, long working hours were still significantly associated with burnout; however, the significant relation with WFC disappeared. It is surmised that if female employees work overtime voluntarily, the perception of WFC diminishes; nevertheless, the adverse effect of long working hours on health remains unabated. This study concludes that female employees who work overtime on a voluntary basis are at risk of health problems, which should be a focus of concern.

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“…Regarding the criteria of “fatigue is not substantially alleviate by rest,” if a person indicated that the person’s problem with fatigue/energy entirely went away with rest, they would be excluded. For the item involving “fatigue is the result of excessive exertion,” Hu et al [31] found that long working hours are correlated with burnout when working over 40 hours per week and is even stronger when working over 60 hours per week. Therefore, individuals who indicated that combined work related activities or household activities involved 60 or more hours a week, for the past 4 weeks, would be considered exclusionary.…”

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Clinical criteria versus a possible research case definition in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis

Jason

McManimen

Sunnquist

et al. 2017

Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior

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Background The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recently developed clinical criteria for what had been known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Given the broad nature of the clinical IOM criteria, there is a need for a research definition that would select a more homogenous and impaired group of patients than the IOM clinical criteria. At the present time, it is unclear what will serve as the research definition. Purpose The current study focused on a research definition which selected homebound individuals who met the four IOM criteria, excluding medical and psychiatric co-morbidities. Methods Our research criteria were compared to those participants meeting the IOM criteria. Those not meeting either of these criteria sets were placed in a separate group defined by 6 or more months of fatigue. Data analyzed were from the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire and the SF-36. Due to unequal sample sizes and variances, Welch’s F tests and Games-Howell post hoc tests were conducted. Results Using a large database of over 1,000 patients from several countries, we found that those meeting a more restrictive research definition were even more impaired and more symptomatic than those meeting criteria for the other two groups. Conclusion Deciding on a particular research case definition would allow researchers to select more comparable patient samples across settings, and this would represent one of the most significant methodologic advances for this field of study.

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The Associations Between Long Working Hours, Physical Inactivity, and Burnout

Abstract: Long working hours are correlated with burnout when working over 40 hours per week and is even stronger when working over 60 hours per week. Limiting working hours to 40 weekly may be beneficial for the prevention of burnout. Physical activity helps reduce the risk of burnout.

Cited by 106 publications

References 31 publications

Burnout, Occupational Stress, Health and Road Accidents among Bus Drivers: Barriers and Challenges for Prevention

Burnout, Occupational Stress, Health and Road Accidents among Bus Drivers: Barriers and Challenges for Prevention

Work Hours and Difficulty in Leaving Work on Time in Relation to Work-to-Family Conflict and Burnout Among Female Workers in Taiwan

Clinical criteria versus a possible research case definition in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis

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