title: Compassion fatigue and burnout amongst clinicians: a medical exploratory study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Compassion fatigue is a broad term comprising of two components - burnout and secondary traumatic stress. The current study is aimed at identifying 'burnout' and 'compassion fatigue' among clinicians involved in care of individuals suffering from medical illness.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 60 clinicians were included in the study. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to gather information related to personal, professional, anthropometric, and metabolic profile of the study participants. Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQoL Version V) was used to assess burnout, compassion satisfaction and secondary traumatic stress. Analysis was carried out using the SPSS version 19.0.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean age of clinicians was 46.68±11.06 (range 26-67 years). Burnout score was significantly higher in those involved in diabetology practice. Similarly, compassion satisfaction score was greater among those with greater years of practice as well as among those in private practice. Clinicians who reported a poor working condition, as opposed to good, had more burnout and less compassion satisfaction.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The current study suggests that it is important to find out ways of decreasing burnout and compassion fatigue among clinicians.
authors.affiliation: 3 Year Medical Student, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Jaikrit
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bhutani
authors.forename: Sukriti
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bhutani
authors.forename: Yatan Pal Singh
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Balhara
authors.forename: Sanjay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kalra
keywords: Burnout; clinicians; compassion fatigue