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.

La littérature rapporte que la connectivite mixte semble plus fréquente dans la population noire et chez les asiatiques. Le but de l'étude était de déterminer la prévalence de la connectivite mixte (CM) parmi les connectivites et l'ensemble des pathologies rhumatologiques dans une population hospitalière au Gabon; de décrire ensuite les caractéristiques cliniques de la maladie. Il s'agissait d'une étude rétrospective des dossiers de patients suivis pour connectivite mixte (critères de Kasukawa) et les autres entités de connectivites (critères ACR) en rhumatologie au CHU de Libreville entre janvier 2010 et décembre 2015. Pour chaque cas de CM, les manifestations articulaires et extra-articulaires, le taux d'anticorps anti-U1RNP, l'évolution, étaient les paramètres étudiés. Sept cas ont été colligés en 6 ans parmi 6050 patients et 67 cas de connectivites soit une prévalence de 0,11% et de 10,44% respectivement. Il s'agissait de 7 femmes (100%), d'âge moyen de 39,5 ans. Les signes articulaires comprenaient: polyarthrite, myalgies, doits boudinés et phénomène de Raynaud dans 87,5%, 87,5%, 28,6% et 14% respectivement. Les 7 patients avaient un taux d'anti-U1RNP élevé entre 5 et 35N (N≤7 UI). Un cas de décès par HTAP était constaté. Il s'agit de la série de CM la plus importante rapportée en Afrique noire. La maladie semble rare chez le noir africain, la raison pourrait être génétique. Les aspects démographiques et cliniques paraissent similaires chez les caucasiens, les asiatiques et les noirs hormis une faible fréquence du phénomène de Raynaud chez les noirs.

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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.