Strategies to improve general practitioner well-being: findings from a focus group study.

ABSTRACT: Background:Primary care physicians are particularly prone to high levels of burnout and poor well-being. Despite this, no qualitative studies have specifically investigated the best ways to improve well-being and prevent burnout in primary care physicians. Previous interventions within primary care have been person-oriented and mainly focused on mindfulness, but there has been no prior research on whether general practitioners (GPs) deem this to be the best approach. Objectives:To explore strategies that could improve GP well-being and reduce or prevent burnout, based on GP perceptions of the workplace factors that affect their levels of well-being and burnout. Methods:Five focus groups were conducted, with 25 GPs (locums, salaried, trainees, and partners) in the UK, between September 2015

SUBMITTER: Hall LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6057514 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature