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Physician burnout has been classified as a psychological syndrome that can be expressed as a prolonged response to due chronic occupational stressors. [1] In the practice of medicine, it has been known to affect a wide variety of individuals from medical students to practicing physicians; although, its impact reaches far beyond that.
It is considered likely that the suffering recognized as exhaustion disorder in Swedish healthcare settings in many other countries would be interpreted as symptoms of depression or an anxiety disorder, [45] [14] or be described with alternative terms such as clinical burnout, work-related neurasthenia, work-related depression, adjustment ...
The new Impact Wellbeing program provides leadership resources on addressing burnout and encourages hospitals to administer well-being questionnaires.
Since that time, the MBI has been used for a wider variety of workers (e.g., healthcare workers). The instrument or its variants are now employed with job incumbents working in many other occupations. [1] There are other conceptualizations of burnout that differ from that suggested by Maslach and adopted by the WHO.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently classified burnout as a "syndrome," medically legitimizing the condition for the first time. Burnout is now officially recognized as a medical condition.
In a 1998 study of 46,000 workers, health care costs were nearly 50% greater for workers reporting high levels of stress in comparison to "low risk" workers. The increment rose to nearly 150%, an increase of more than $1,700 per person annually, for workers reporting high levels of both stress and depression. [ 44 ]
The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is a psychological assessment instrument comprising 22 symptom items pertaining to occupational burnout. [1] The original form of the MBI was developed by Christina Maslach and Susan E. Jackson with the goal of assessing an individual's experience of burnout. [ 2 ]
Healthcare workers like nurses, doctors and other medical staff that worked on the front-lines in China experienced symptoms of anxiety, depression and difficulty sleeping. [45] More specifically, about 46.04% had anxiety, 44.37% had depression, and 28.75% experienced insomnia. [ 45 ]