The Forgotten Health-Care Occupations at Risk of Burnout-A Burnout, Job Demand-Control-Support, and Effort-Reward Imbalance Survey

Claire Sérole; Candy Auclair; Denis Prunet; Morteza Charkhabi; François-Xavier Lesage; Julien S Baker; Martial Mermillod; Laurent Gerbaud; Frédéric Dutheil

doi:10.1097/JOM.0000000000002235

The Forgotten Health-Care Occupations at Risk of Burnout-A Burnout, Job Demand-Control-Support, and Effort-Reward Imbalance Survey

J Occup Environ Med. 2021 Jul 1;63(7):e416-e425. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002235.

Authors

Claire Sérole¹, Candy Auclair, Denis Prunet, Morteza Charkhabi, François-Xavier Lesage, Julien S Baker, Martial Mermillod, Laurent Gerbaud, Frédéric Dutheil

Affiliation

¹ Preventive and Occupational Medicine, University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand (Ms Serole, Mr Prunet); Université Clermont Auvergne, University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, Public Health, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sigma Clermont, Institut Pascal (Dr Auclair, Dr Gerbaud); National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (Dr Charkhabi); Laboratory Epsylon EA4556, Dynamic of Human Abilities & Health Behavior, Montpellier, University Hospital of Montpellier, Occupational and Preventive Medicine, University of Montpellier (Dr Lesage); Centre for Health and Exercise Science Research, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China (Dr Baker); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition, Université Grenoble Alpes (Dr Mermillod); Institut Universitaire de France, Paris (Dr Mermillod); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, Physiological and Psychosocial Stress, University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, Preventive and Occupational Medicine, Université Clermont Auvergne, WittyFit (Dr Dutheil), Clermont-Ferrand, France; Australian Catholic University, Faculty of Health, School of Exercise Science, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Dr Dutheil).

PMID: 34184659
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002235

Abstract

Aims: We conducted a cross-sectional study on healthcare workers from the University Hospital in Clermont-Ferrand. They received a self-report questionnaire consisting of the Maslach Burnout Inventory, Job Demand Control Support, Effort-Reward Imbalance model, and questions about ethical conflict in order to investigate on burnout.

Results: We included 1774 workers. Overinvestment was the only factor explaining the increase in emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and the decrease in personal accomplishment. Taking into account the absence of burnout as a reference, overinvestment multiplied the risk of high burnout by 22.0 (5.10 to 94.7).

Conclusion: Some "forgotten" occupations among healthcare workers are at risk of burnout. Overinvestment was the main factor explaining the increase in the tree dimensions of burnout. Moreover, the two main models of stress at work were highly predictive of burnout.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02596737.

MeSH terms

Burnout, Professional* / epidemiology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Humans
Job Satisfaction*
Occupations
Reward
Surveys and Questionnaires

Associated data

ClinicalTrials.gov/NCT02596737