[Occupational stress and job burnout in doctors].
OBJECTIVE
To investigate the status of job burnout in doctors and its relationship with occupational stress.


METHODS
A total of 561 doctors from three provincial hospitals were randomly selected. The Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS) was used to identify job burnout. The occupation stress inventory revised edition (OSI-R) was used to evaluate the level of occupational stress.


RESULTS
Surgeon and doctors working in the internal medicine wards scored significantly higher in job burnout than their colleagues (P < 0.05). The 30-40 years of age group scored highest in exhaustion. The score of professional efficacy decreased with age and increased with educational levels. Role overload, responsibility, physical environment, reaction and self-care were major predictors for exhaustion. Role insufficiency, role overload and responsibility were major predictors for cynicism. Role insufficiency, social support and rational/cognitive were major predictors for professional efficacy.


CONCLUSIONS
Maintaining moderate professional duty and responsibility, clearly defining job requirements, enriching leisure activities, and improving self-care ability are important measures to preventing job burnout.
Zhu
Wei
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Department of Pediatric Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdou, China.
Wang
Zhi-Ming
ZM
Wang
Mian-Zhen
MZ
Lan
Ya-Jia
YJ
Wu
Si-Ying
SY
D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D002681:China; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016526:Workload