"Burnout and disengagement at work among health professionals-interrelations and associations with stress indicators and job resources"

by Hämmig, Oliver (2024)

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is to explore common risk and protective factors of burnout and disengagement at work among healthcare workers. METHODS: Cross-sectional survey data of 1232 health professionals and employees of five public hospitals and rehabilitation clinics collected in 2015/16 in German-speaking Switzerland were used and analyzed. Different stress measures and job resources were studied as predictors of burnout and work engagement. RESULTS: Burnout was found to be largely explained by work stress (β = 0.22) and particularly by general stress (β = 0.54) whereas work engagement was only marginally determined by these stress indicators. Job autonomy or supervisor support on the other hand had no protective effect on burnout at all but a fairly strong predictive effect on work engagement (β = 0.27/0.23). CONCLUSION: Burnout turned out to be mainly stress-induced whereas work engagement emerged largely as a result of job autonomy and supervisor support.

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• http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000003005
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37871577
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11444353

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