Current PsychiatryVol. 13 No.1 March 2006
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a vital role in work-related fatigue (LeveyRE, 2001).Burnout differs from depression, in that it isconfined to the workplace. However, if generalization to the home environmentoccurs, burnout may progress to clinicaldepression, although such a temporalrelationship is not well established(LevineRE, et al 2003, Veasey S, et al 2002,Beckman JA & Fang JC, 2002 ).Based on these results, we undertook checking a sample of residents to measuretheir burnout and explore the associationwith specialty, the effects of recreationalactivities, their frequencies, satisfactionwith working hours, number of calls per week, the distance of residentsHousing from the working place, stager intraining e.g. junior or senior, and whichspecialties are more vulnerable to burnoutsyndrome?.
Subjects and methods:
Subjects of this study are all residentsworking at King Abdul-Aziz Medical City(KAMC) during March 2005. Confoundingvariables were assessed among all residentse.g. age, sex, marital status, recreationalactivities, their frequencies, distance of their living away from KAMC, number of on calls & working hours.There were 71 residents, who weredistributed as the following:Three residents from ENT, Two residentsfrom ophthalmology, One resident fromER, Ten residents from General Surgery,Ten residents from Obstetrics andGynecology, Nine residents fromRadiology, Seventeen residents from pediatrics, Nineteen residents fromMedicineMBI was used as a measure to assess thequantity of burnout among all residents(who are under the supervision of SaudiBoard Program) and working at KAMC.Given the stress that accompanies this kindof uncertain job situation when hospitals areundergoing restructuring, nurses are particularly prone to developing psychological burnout. Maslach burnoutInventory consists of three differentaspects: emotional exhaustion,depersonalization, and reduced personalaccomplishment. Emotional exhaustion isdefined as feelings of being emotionallyoverextended and drained by others.Depersonalization is a callous responsetoward people who are the recipients of one's services. Lack of personalaccomplishment is a decline in one'sfeelings of competence and successfulachievement in one's work with people.Burnout is considered a special type of prolonged exposure to occupational stressand results from interpersonal demands atwork (Maslach C, et al 1996)MBI consists of 22 statements representing3 main components:A-Emotional exhaustion are represented bystatements. Their numbers are:4,5,7,9,10,11,12,15,17,18,19,21,22B-Depersonalization are represented bystatements. Their numbers are:1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,12,13,14,16,17,18,19,20,21C-Accomplishment are represented bystatements. Their numbers are:1,2,3,5,6,8,10,11,13,14,15,16,20,22
Statistical Analysis:
All analyses were conducted with SPSSsoftware. Means, standard deviations (SD)and Qui square are reported. Comparisons between two quantitative means’
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