More public health service providers are experiencing job burnout than clinical care providers in primary care facilities in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health workers are at high risk of job burnout. Primary care in China has recently expanded its scope of services to a broader range of public health services in addition to clinical care. This study aims to measure the prevalence of burnout and identify its associated factors among clinical care and public health service providers at primary care facilities.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey (2018) was conducted among 17,816 clinical care and public health service providers at 701 primary care facilities from six provinces. Burnout was measured by the Chinese version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Scale, and multilevel linear regression analysis was conducted to identify burnout's association with demographics, as well as occupational and organisational

SUBMITTER: Lu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7711271 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature