Burnout and work-related stress in Italian rehabilitation professionals: A comparison of physiotherapists, speech therapists and occupational therapists

Bruschini, Marco; Carli, Antonella; Burla, Franco

doi:10.3233/wor-172657

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“…Another relevant factor is the type of working hours, where it was found that the professionals with split shifts manifested a higher percentage of burnout than those who worked in morning or afternoon shifts. This finding was expected, and can be connected with another study where there was a significant correlation between the risk of exhaustion and prolonged work hours [24].…”

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Burnout Syndrome in Occupational Therapists in Spain: Prevalence and Risk Factors

Escudero-Escudero

Segura‐Fragoso

Cantero-Garlito

2020

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The objective of this study was to assess the potential levels of burnout syndrome in occupational therapists in Spain, as well as the risk factors involved in its prevalence. The data were obtained through an online survey. The tool utilised for this purpose was the Maslach Burnout Inventory General Survey (MBI-GS) that takes into consideration the following dimensions: emotional fatigue, depersonalisation and reduction of personal satisfaction. A sociodemographic questionnaire was also utilised. The sample of the study included 758 occupational therapists, 90.8% of whom were women and 9.2% of whom were men. For identifying the variables associated to the presence of burnout, the prevalence was compared through the chi-squared test, and the odds ratios by age were calculated through the binary logistic regression model. We found that 69.4% of the occupational therapists presented burnout syndrome and especially emotional fatigue (63.5%). Likewise, relevant and significant differences in the prevalence of burnout syndrome were observed depending on the age, marital status, number of children, work field and type of workday. We can conclude that burnout syndrome poses a clear risk for the health of occupational therapists that could have direct consequences on the work environment, affecting the way the interventions are performed with patients. This study could help to raise awareness on this reality and the factors implied. We suggest the implementation of measures (individual, labour and political) both for the prevention of burnout in occupational therapists as well as for reducing the levels of those who suffer from it.

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Burnout Syndrome in Occupational Therapists in Spain: Prevalence and Risk Factors

Escudero-Escudero

Segura‐Fragoso

Cantero-Garlito

2020

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“…Gisbert et al (2008) reported that only 4% of the surveyed Spanish physiotherapists reported burnout. Bruschini et al (2018) have reported that 15.7% of the surveyed Italian physiotherapists are at high risk of developing burnout, Śliwiński et al (2014) reported that 22.5% of the surveyed Polish physiotherapists evidenced high levels of burnout and Schuster, Nelson, and Quisling (1984), reported a prevalence of burnout of 53% in American physiotherapists.…”

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“…This line of thought considers exhaustion to have a central role in the process, and in fact exhaustion is a key dimension in all theoretical perspectives of burnout. Exhaustion is the most widely reported and analysed component of the syndrome and, although this approach is not consensual (Maslach, Leiter, & Schaufeli, 2008), emotional exhaustion has been reported as the most prominent burnout characteristic in studies enrolling health professionals in general (Bruschini, Carli, & Burla, 2018) and physiotherapists in particular (Wandling & Smith, 1997), highlighting the importance of this component.…”

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Burnout in Portuguese physiotherapists, prevalence and influencing factors

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Marqués

Moreira-Silva

et al. 2020

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Psychological stress can be viewed as occurring when demands exceed an individual's adaptive capacity. Burnout is an occupational syndrome defined by three dimensions, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and feelings of low personal accomplishment. Factors related to the nature of the physiotherapy practice, in which health care is provided to patients under painful experiences and chronical conditions, to aspects related to emotional fatigue brought by interpersonal exchanges or physical exhaustion due to staff shortage, within an increasingly demanding health care system, expose physiotherapists to a higher risk of burnout and few studies have examined burnout in this specific setting. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of burnout in Portuguese physiotherapists and to explore possible associations between burnout and demographic and work-related variables. Significant but weak association was found between age and emotional exhaustion, and between clinical experience and emotional exhaustion and global burnout score. Weak association was also found between the number of treated patients daily and daily working hours and physical fatigue and global burnout. Workload was associated with significantly higher scores of physical fatigue, cognitive weariness and global burnout. The prevalence of burnout was not high but significant differences were found in the prevalence of physical fatigue between the group with low workload and high workload. Emotional exhaustion was the most relevant predictor of the global burnout score. In conclusion, the results suggest that the prevalence of burnout in Portuguese physiotherapists is not very high, however, workload seems to place these professionals at a higher risk of developing burnout.

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“…When one tries to define SB one can find a multiplicity of definitions in this respect. Currently, most of the studies are framed within the three-dimensional approach that the syndrome is composed of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and loss of self-fulfilment in the workplace (Martínez-Moreno et al, 2020;Pires and Ugrinowitsch, 2020;Li, et al 2018;Mikalauskas et al, 2018;Kavanagh et al, 2018;Armenta-Hernández et al, 2018;Bruschini et al, 2018;Kawamura et al, 2017;Leiter and Maslach, 2017) and in the case of students the three dimensions are: emotional exhaustion, cynicism and academic effectiveness or selfefficacy (Liu et al, 2018;Boni et al, 2018;Erschens et al, 2018;Liébana-Presa et al, 2017;Hederich-Martínez et al, 2016;Tomaschewski et al, 2014) University students, like any professional, are faced with the pressures and overloads of academic work.…”

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The most effective physical exercise to reduce burnout syndrome in university students

Ricardo¹,

Montoro-Bombú²,

Ferreira³

2020

Journal of Human Sport and Exercise - 2020 - Spring Conferences of Sports Science

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The objective of this study was to determine the most effective physical exercise in reducing burnout syndrome levels in university students. Methods: An experimental study was carried with 2 intervention groups with aerobic and strength exercise and one control group without exercise. Instruments: Maslach Burnout Inventory Students Survey and Heart Rate Variability (HRV): RR mean, SDNN, and RMSSD. Results: In exhaustion there was the greatest percentage of change in the aerobics group with a reduction of 26 %, followed by the strength group (19.5 %). In the cynicism it was the strength group that had the greatest reduction (27%) over the aerobics group (21%). Comparison between groups of aerobics and strength: dimension effectiveness low (d = 0.284, PD = 10.51 %), in exhaustion and cynicism trivial (d = 0.068, PD = 4.83 %; and 0.030, 3.39 %). In HRV three variables with trivial effect size (d = 0.071, 0.85%; 0.177, 5.22% and 0.075, 2.95%). HRV behaved differently: RR mean, the difference was large (d = 0.905, 10.24%), in SDNN it was moderate (d = 0.515, 14.48%), whereas in RMSSD it was small. Conclusions: Aerobic exercises were more effective in reducing levels of exhaustion, while strength exercises reduced levels of the cynicism and effectiveness dimensions.

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Burnout and work-related stress in Italian rehabilitation professionals: A comparison of physiotherapists, speech therapists and occupational therapists

Abstract: Like all health care workers, rehabilitation professionals are at a high risk of burnout. There are common mechanisms underlying burnout in the different professional groups investigated. Further research in occupational health in rehabilitation settings is needed to prevent burnout.

Cited by 90 publications

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Burnout Syndrome in Occupational Therapists in Spain: Prevalence and Risk Factors

Burnout Syndrome in Occupational Therapists in Spain: Prevalence and Risk Factors

Burnout in Portuguese physiotherapists, prevalence and influencing factors

The most effective physical exercise to reduce burnout syndrome in university students

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