Burnout and Exposure to Critical Incidents in a Cohort of Emergency Medical Services Workers from Minnesota.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Very little quantitative data on occupational burnout and exposure to critical incidents are available from contemporary United States emergency medical services (EMS) cohorts. Given that burnout has been associated positively with turnover intentions and absenteeism in EMS workers, studies that uncover correlates of burnout may be integral to combating growing concerns around retention in the profession.

Methods

We administered a 167-item electronic survey that included the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and a modified version of the Critical Incident History Questionnaire (n=29 incident types) to paramedics, emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and dispatchers of a single ambulance service. We defined the presence of burnout as a high score on either the emo

SUBMITTER: Boland LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6225931 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature