Burnout Among Hospitalists During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic: a National Mixed Methods Survey Study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND  : Hospitalist physician stress was exacerbated by the pandemic, yet there have been no large scale studies of contributing factors.

Objective

Assess remediable components of burnout in hospitalists.

Participants, study design and measures

In this Coping with COVID study, we focused on assessment of stress factors among 1022 hospital-based clinicians surveyed between April to December 2020. We assessed variables previously associated with burnout (anxiety/depression due to COVID-19, work overload, fear of exposure or transmission, mission/purpose, childcare stress and feeling valued) on 4 point Likert scales, with results dichotomized with the top two categories meaning "present"; burnout was assessed with the Mini Z single item measure (top 3 choices = burnout). Q

SUBMITTER: Becker A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10713906 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature