Burnout level of doctors in Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital
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Abstract
The responsibility of doctors is increasing and leading totheir stress and exhaustion. This study aimed to investigate burnout level of doctors in Chiangrai Prachanukroh Hospital and find out factors associated to burnout outcomes in the medical education center staffs and residents.
Material and methods
The data was collected from the burnout questionnaire MBI-GS.
Results
The answer questions on a voluntary basis were done by 88 doctorsin the hospital. The results show that the medical education center staffs and residents have the medium level of exhaustion, quite low level of cynicism, and high level of work effectiveness. The multivariate analysis reveals that male had higher score of exhaustion 5.3 times compared to female (95% CI; 1.10,25.68, p=0.038). Eight to ten days of overtime jobs increased work effectiveness to 6.2times over others (95% CI; 1.3, 28.87, p=0.021). The feeling of high working load was leading to the reduction of work effectiveness to 0.3 times (95% CI; 0.13, 0.93, p=0.036).
Conclusion
The doctors in Chiangrai Prachanukroh hospital have a medium level of exhaustion, quite low level of cynicism, and high level of work effectiveness. The feeling of high working load was leading to the 70 percent reduction of work effectiveness.
Key words
burnout, exhaustion, doctors
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