title: Burnout in medical residents: a study based on the job demands-resources model.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job. The purpose of our cross-sectional study was to estimate the burnout rates among medical residents in the largest Greek hospital in 2012 and identify factors associated with it, based on the job demands-resources model (JD-R).
  
  
  METHODS
  Job demands were examined via a 17-item questionnaire assessing 4 characteristics (emotional demands, intellectual demands, workload, and home-work demands' interface) and job resources were measured via a 14-item questionnaire assessing 4 characteristics (autonomy, opportunities for professional development, support from colleagues, and supervisor's support). The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was used to measure burnout.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 290 eligible residents, 90.7% responded. In total 14.4% of the residents were found to experience burnout. Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that each increased point in the JD-R questionnaire score regarding home-work interface was associated with an increase in the odds of burnout by 25.5%. Conversely, each increased point for autonomy, opportunities in professional development, and each extra resident per specialist were associated with a decrease in the odds of burnout by 37.1%, 39.4%, and 59.0%, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Burnout among medical residents is associated with home-work interface, autonomy, professional development, and resident to specialist ratio.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Evangelismos General Hospital, 10676 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-8567-3092
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zis
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 17671 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Fotios
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-1471-0284
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Anagnostopoulos
authors.affiliation: South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London SE5 8AZ, UK.
authors.forename: Panagiota
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-6477-4481
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sykioti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology*; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006295:Health Resources; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016526:Workload / Q000523:psychology*