“…For example, increased burnout has been linked with greater staff absenteeism (Borritz et al, 2006) and intentions to quit (Salyers et al, 2015) and reduced job engagement, employee morale, and job satisfaction (Maslach et al, 2001; Paris & Hoge, 2010). A few studies have also found that higher levels of burnout are associated with lower self-reported quality of care (Salyers et al, 2015; Shanafelt, Bradley, Wipf, & Back, 2002; Van Bogaert, Kowalski, Weeks, Van Heusden, & Clarke, 2013), with one study finding that burnout mediated the relationship between number of work hours and poor self-reported quality of care in physicians (Shirom, Nirel, & Vinokur, 2006). Similarly, working long hours has been associated with increased emotional exhaustion in psychologists working in independent practice (Rupert & Morgan, 2005), and working overtime hours has been found to be a contributing factor to burnout in community mental health nurses in Japan (Imai, Nakao, Tsuchiya, Kuroda, & Katoh, 2004).…”