Burnout level and associated factors in a Sub-Saharan African medical setting: prospective cross-sectional survey
| Autor: | J. Ibaba, Jean Bruno Boguikouma, Jean-Baptiste Moussavou Kombila, Pierre Pottier, J.R. Mackanga, Emeline Gracia Mouendou Mouloungui |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Cross-sectional study health care facilities manpower and services education lcsh:Medicine Context (language use) Burnout Psychological Burnout Logistic regression Factors Education 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030202 anesthesiology Surveys and Questionnaires Prevalence medicine Humans Prospective Studies Gabon Medical setting Burnout Professional Africa South of the Sahara Aged lcsh:LC8-6691 Medical education lcsh:Special aspects of education business.industry lcsh:R Clinical supervision General Medicine Millennium Development Goals Cross-Sectional Studies Family medicine Scale (social sciences) 030221 ophthalmology & optometry Residence business psychological phenomena and processes Research Article |
| Zdroj: | BMC Medical Education, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020) BMC Medical Education |
| DOI: | 10.21203/rs.2.14191/v1 |
| Popis: | Background Burnout in the hospital environment is a problem that affects care and training. Often explored in the high-income medical context, burnout is poorly studied in low and middle-income countries characterized by a precarious hospital situation and a high stake linked to the Millennium Development Goals. The aim of our study was to determine in medical practitioners, in a sub-Saharan African country’s medical context, the burnout level and associated factors. Methods A prospective cross-sectional study by using a self-administered Likert-scale questionnaire addressed to doctors and doctoral medical students in Gabon. Maslach Burnout Inventory scale has been used. Burnout symptoms were defined by high level in at least one of the 3 dimensions. Severe burnout defined by high level in all dimensions. Explored factors: socio-demographic and psychometric. Multiple logistic regression has been performed. Results Among 104 participants, severe burnout prevailed at 1.9% (95% CI: 0.2–6.8%) and burnout symptoms at 34.6% (95% CI: 25, 6–44.6%). The associated factors with burnout symptoms: age (OR = 0.86, p = 0.004), clinical activity in a university hospital center (OR = 5.19, p = 0.006), the easy access to the hospital (OR = 0.59, p = 0.012), number of elderly dependents living with the practitioner (OR = 0.54, p = 0.012), place of residence (same borough where the hospital is located: OR = 4.09, p = 0.039) and to be favorable to traditional medicine (OR = 1.82, p = 0.087). Nagelkerke’s R-squared:53.1%. Conclusion In Gabon, middle-income country, almost one practitioner in two has burnout symptoms. The young age, the university hospital center, the difficulty to access to hospital and to live in the borough where the hospital is located increase the probability of burnout symptoms. These results must put question to relevant authorities regarding health and medical education, to set up: a public transport for practitioners, an optimal primary health care system, a regulation of medical tasks in hospitals, a training in clinical supervision. |
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