Professional Burnout Syndrome among the Doctors of Surgical Description

Shkurupiу D. A., Lukzen V. B., Buharov I. V.

HYGIENE AND ECOLOGY

Scentific article

Professional burnout syndrome among the doctors of surgical description impacts on the quality of the delivery of healthcare to people. Professional load, work experience and specialization are the basic factors of this syndrome formation. The questionnaire of 62 doctors of surgical description were carried out. The mode and nature of work and rest, level of professional burnout were being evaluated by Maslach Burnout Inventory method of questioning in the modification of N. Ye. Vodopyanova. It is found that anesthesiologists have got a high level of professional burnout, emotional exhaustion, cynicism, low aspirations for career growth, frequent misunderstandings with the administration, realize possible difficulties in the performing of professional activities, which is formed on the basis of life experience, prefer 8­hour work day, distress with the help of sleep and spirits. Obstetrician­gynecologists have got a medium level of professional burnout, emotional exhaustion, high level of cynicism, strong aspirations for career growth, frequent misunderstandings with the patients and their relatives, realize possible difficulties in the performing of professional activities which is formed on the basis of life experience, prefer 8­hour work day, destress with the help of smoking and communication with close people. Traumatologists and surgeons have got similar psychological profile excluding that the doctors of both directions have got frequent misunderstandings with the counterparts of related areas, the first ones prefer 24­hour work day, destress with the help of spirits and sports, and the second ones prefer 8­hour work day, destress with the help of sleep and smoking. Depending on the experience, the expressiveness of professional burnout syndrome reaches a maximum after 11­15 years of professional activity. Doctors with the experience up to 5 years mainly have got the difficulties in communication with the administration, from 6 to 15 years – with the counterparts of related areas, after 15 years – with the patients. Unlike senior counterparts, doctors with the experience up to 5 years prefer daily duties. Thus for the prevention and correction of the consequences of professional burnout syndrome among the doctors of surgical description it is necessary to create the conditions of correct and based on mutual respect communication with the administration, junior specialists, develop a plan of incentives, arrange related clinical and organizational and methodological conferences, meetings, seminars with doctors of related areas, involve specialists in psychology for the delivery of psychological aid to the patients and for conducting trainings, involve doctors with the work experience up to 5 years for daily duties and also give priority to such work mode to traumatologists. It’s necessary to organize the working shifts for doctors with the work experience up to 10 years, anesthesiologists and surgeons so as to set a healthy sleep mode and for doctors with the work experience more than 15 years and obstetrician­gynecologists to provide full communication with close people. It’s recommended to organize a sports recreation for doctors within the hospital and in off­duty time.

surgery, doctors, professional burnout syndrome

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