Burnout and Health Related Quality of Life among emergency physicians working at emergency at Tertiary Care Hospital in Lahore Pakistan

Objective: To determine frequency of burnout in emergency physicians and to identify its impact on their health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Methods: In this cross-sectional study, physicians from departments with emergency cover of Jinnah Hospital Lahore were included. Their burnout and HRQOL s...

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Published in:Pakistan journal of medical sciences 2023-10, Vol.39 (5), p.1372-1377
Main Authors: Sarwar, Shahid, Mahmood, Asma, Farooq Raja, Mahnoor, Mahmud, Yasir
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Burnout
Cronbach's alpha
Fatigue
Medical errors
Original
Patient safety
Patient satisfaction
Physicians
Quality of life
Statistical analysis
Variance analysis
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Summary:Objective: To determine frequency of burnout in emergency physicians and to identify its impact on their health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Methods: In this cross-sectional study, physicians from departments with emergency cover of Jinnah Hospital Lahore were included. Their burnout and HRQOL scores using Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and Short Form (SF)-36 respectively were determined in March 2022. Burnout scores were graded as low, moderate and high and were correlated with domains of HRQOL using chi X2 and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Results: One hundred fifty physicians were included with mean age 26.2 (±2.59), male to female ratio 0.78:1 (66/84) and House Officer (HO) to Postgraduate Resident (PGR) ratio 1.94:1 (99/51). High burnout was identified in 76 (50.7%) participants while 48 (32%) had moderate and 26 (17.3%) had low burnout. Males scored better than female physicians in vitality (0.008), general mental health (0.004), and mental component summary (0.01) domains of HRQOL. Doctors with high burnout had significantly lower scores in both physical component summary (p-value 0.004) and mental component summary (p-value < 0.0001) domains of HRQOL. Conclusion: Physicians working in emergency settings have high frequency of burnout and it adversely affects their mental and physical health related quality of life. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.39.5.7560 How to cite this: Sarwar S, Mahmood A, Raja MF, Mahmud Y. Burnout and Health Related Quality of Life among emergency physicians working at emergency at Tertiary Care Hospital in Lahore Pakistan. Pak J Med Sci. 2023;39(5):---. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.39.5.7560 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
ISSN:1682-024X
1681-715X
DOI:10.12669/PJMS.39.5.7560