Doctors don't Do-little: a national cross-sectional study of workplace well-being of hospital doctors in Ireland.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To measure levels of occupational stress, burn-out, work-life balance, presenteeism, work ability (balance between work and personal resources) and desire to practise in trainee and consultant hospital doctors in Ireland.

Design

National cross-sectional study of randomised sample of hospital doctors. Participants provided sociodemographic data (age, sex), work grade (consultant, higher/basic specialist trainee), specialty, work hours and completed workplace well-being questionnaires (Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) Scale, overcommitment, Maslach Burnout Inventory) and single item measures of work ability, presenteeism, work-life balance and desire to practise.

Setting

Irish publicly funded hospitals and residential institutions.

Participants

1749 docto

SUBMITTER: Hayes B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6429874 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature