Lifestyle Medicine Practitioners Implementing a Greater Proportion of Lifestyle Medicine Experience Less Burnout.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To identify reasons for burnout, characterize the effect of lifestyle medicine (LM) practice on burnout, and assess the risk of burnout in relation to the proportion of LM practice.

Design

Analysis of mixed methods data from a large, cross-sectional survey on LM practice.

Setting

Web-based survey platform.

Participants

Members of an LM medical professional society at the time of survey administration.

Methods

Practitioner members of a medical professional society were recruited to a cross-sectional, online survey. Data were collected on LM practice and experiences with burnout. Free-text data were thematically grouped and counted, and the association of burnout with the proportion of lifestyle-based medical practice was analyzed using logistic re

SUBMITTER: Pollard KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10631282 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature