Burnout in French General Practitioners: A Nationwide Prospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of burnout among French general practitioners in private practice and to study the risk and protective factors of burnout.

Methods

A nationwide cross-sectional study was conducted with French GPs working in a private practice in France who were asked to fulfil an internet questionnaire. We used the secure internet application REDCap^®. Exclusion criteria were only working in a hospital, substitute doctors, and internship students. There was a putative sample size of 88,886 GPs. We retrieved the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), occupational characteristics (type of installation, emergency regulated shifts, night shifts, university supervisor, weekly hours worked, seniority), and personal characteristics such as age, gen

SUBMITTER: Dutheil F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8624683 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature