Burnout Syndrome Among Medical Practitioners Across India: A Questionnaire-Based Survey.
OBJECTIVE
Excessive and prolonged work-related stress has always been a cause for burnout among healthcare professionals. This has led to emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion. This survey was conducted to assess the burnout among medical practitioners using the abbreviated Maslach Burnout Inventory (aMBI) and Burnout Clinical Subtype Questionnaire (BCSQ-12) scales.


METHODS
A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 482 registered medical practitioners across India. A questionnaire consisting of 25 socio-demographic and occupational questions related to aMBI and BCSQ-12 scales was used to assess the burnout. The distribution of responses for each variable was examined using frequencies and percentages among the subgroups to find out the burnout levels of various components of the scales.


RESULTS
High burnout levels were uniformly recorded for the entire population. For the aMBI, 45.02% (n = 217) and 65.98% (n = 318) of the participants scored high on the emotional exhaustion and depersonalization scales, respectively, whereas 87.14% (n = 420) scored low on the personal accomplishment scale and 62.86% (n = 303) and 11.41% (n = 55) had medium and low scores on the satisfaction with the medical practice scale. The BCSQ-12 scale showed the mean values of 15.89, 11.56, and 10.28 on a scale of 28 for overload, lack of development, and neglect subtypes, respectively, whereas, satisfaction with the financial compensation item showed a mean value of 3.79 on a scale of seven. All these values indicate high levels of burnout.


CONCLUSIONS
The results suggest high levels of burnout in all domains of aMBI and BCSQ-12 scales in all the occupational and socio-demographic groups of medical practitioners and warrant immediate actions to address this issue.
Head, Dept. of Pharmacology, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Dental College & Hospital, Navi Mumbai.
Deepak
D
Langade
Trainee Research Assistant, Clinsearch Healthcare Solutions.
Pranav D
PD
Modi
Medical student, Inter Cultural Program for Freshman, Med (ICPF-Med), Fachhochschule des Mittelstands (FHM).
Yazad F
YF
Sidhwa
Medical student, Inter Cultural Program for Freshman, Med (ICPF-Med), Fachhochschule des Mittelstands (FHM).
Namita A
NA
Hishikar
Department of Dentistry, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India.
Amit S
AS
Gharpure
Asst. Prof of Pharmacology, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University Dental College & Hospital, Navi Mumbai.
Kalpana
K
Wankhade
Research Associate, Clinsearch Healthcare Solutions.
Jayshree
J
Langade
Asst. Director, Clinical Research, Institute of Infectious Diseases (IID), Pune.
Kedar
K
Joshi
ambi; bcsq-12; burnout; burnout syndrome; chronic stress; india; medical practitioners; mental health; physician health