Burnout in radiation therapists: the predictive value of selected stressors

Stress and ego-defense mechanisms in medical staff at oncology and physical medicine departments

“…Hospital workers dealing with severely damaged physically handicapped patients are subject to more frequent and more intense personal distress than staff treating less seriously ill patients. In our study we found that medical staff on oncology is affected with more stressors (7 out of 9 including death of patients, facing the patient or his family with possible death, being overloaded with number of patients, facing pain, suffering and handicap, insufficiency of medications, insufficient positive feedback from the patients and bad interpersonal relations at work) and that they do not have support from the colleagues compared with medical staff on physical medicine department and these findings support the results of other studies that report about stress on oncology department 14,23,24 . There was no statistically significant difference in having a support from friends and family as well as being without support.…”

“…Many authors have pointed out that work at the oncology department represents a particularly very stressogenic factor which leads to the development of burnout in the long run [11][12][13][14] , as a state of mental or physical exhaustion 15 . Burnout is the result of a severe, protracted stress, for which the individual's usual coping skills have become ineffective 16,17 .…”

Early Career Resilience: Interdisciplinary Insights to Support Professional Education of Radiation Therapists

“…A number of studies across a range of countries have indicated a proportion of the radiotherapy workforce maybe suffering from burnout (1)(2)(3)(4)(5). With average Emotional Exhaustion (EE) scores (from the Maslach Burnout Inventory-MBI(6)) ranging from 22.9-30.3 (1,3,4) reported across countries; MBI norm for EE is 20.9) .…”

“…With average Emotional Exhaustion (EE) scores (from the Maslach Burnout Inventory-MBI(6)) ranging from 22.9-30.3 (1,3,4) reported across countries; MBI norm for EE is 20.9) . High levels of emotional exhaustion EE are indicated by EE score ≥27.…”

Response to Editorial in the JRP by Robson, Clark and White 2014 patient safety: the journey towards safer radiotherapy

“…We do know that a proportion of the oncology workforce suffers from burnout 6,[12][13][14] and work needs to concentrate on interventions to reduce the opportunity for burnout in an effort to reduce the potential for further radiation errors.…”