1. Relationship Between Faculty Characteristics and Emotional Exhaustion in a Large Academic Medical Center
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Kirk J. Brower, Rebecca M. Brownlee, Kara Zivin, Srijan Sen, and Katherine J. Gold
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media_common.quotation_subject ,education ,Bivariate analysis ,Burnout ,Logistic regression ,Occupational Stress ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Adaptation, Psychological ,Humans ,Workplace ,Emotional exhaustion ,Burnout, Professional ,Depressive symptoms ,Personal time ,media_common ,Academic Medical Centers ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Resilience, Psychological ,Faculty ,030210 environmental & occupational health ,Mental health ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Female ,Psychological resilience ,Psychology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Objective We evaluated associations between emotional exhaustion (EE), a measure of burnout, among medical school faculty and: demographic and professional characteristics, workplace stressors, coping skills, resilience, sufficient personal time, and depressive symptoms. Respondents completed surveys in November 2017. Methods We conducted bivariate and multivariable logistic regression and recycled predictions models to estimate associations between characteristics and probability of EE. Results Of 1,401 respondents, 42% endorsed EE. Faculty with more clinical effort, more workplace stress, less resilience, less personal time, and more depressive symptoms reported statistically significantly higher probabilities of EE compared to their counterparts. Female gender, mid-career stage, and coping skills were no longer associated with EE, after accounting for stress, resilience, personal time, and depressive symptoms. Conclusions Coping skills may not mitigate physician EE when coupled with substantial time and mental health burdens.
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- 2020
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