Burnout Among Pharmacists

Community pharmacists’ burnout levels and related factors: an example from Turkey

“…Similar to the former studies less work experience and young age were found to be associated with higher burnout levels [7,9,30,[34][35][36]. This is due to the fact that people with less experience at work are more prone to experience burnout.…”

“…In general, countries differ in terms of pharmacists' burnout levels. Previous studies reported that American pharmacists' burnout levels are moderate [8,9,15]. On the other hand in South Africa, pharmacists show low levels of burnout [23].…”

“…Individual characteristics like age, sex, marital status, type of personality, etc. also influence burnout level [6][7][8][9][10].…”

Factors associated with the burnout syndrome among professionals in pharmaceutical manufacturing industry and marketing 1234

“…The high level of depersonalization was reported by 27% Vesna R. Jovanović, Dušanka Krajnović, Goran Mihajlović, Valentina Marinković 20 of the respondents, which was over three times more than among the pharmacists in Ankara where 8% of the subjects manifested high-level scores on the aforementioned scale 13 . In addition, our results are not consistent with previous studies conducted in the US that reported moderate levels of burnout among the pharmacists 15,16 . In the sample of the pharmacists from Japan, 49.2% of respondents were at high risk for developing the burnout.…”

Maslach Burnout Inventory: Factor Structures for Pharmacists in Health Maintenance Organizations and Comparison with Normative Data for USA Pharmacists

“…The Maslach Burnout Inventory has been used in most empirical studies of burnout among pharmacists (Barnett, Hopkins, & Jackson, 1986;Lahoz & Mason, 1989, 1990. Pharmacists working in various practice settings such as hospitals and retail pharmacies have been represented in these studies.…”