A three-year cohort study of the relationships between coping, job stress and burnout after a counselling intervention for help-seeking physicians

BMC Public Health

Research Article

Reidar Tyssen¹  Olaf G Aasland²  Harold Sexton³  Tore Gude⁴  Karin E Isaksson Ro⁴  Asle Hoffart⁵ 

[1] Department of Behavioural Sciences in Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Boks 1111 Blindern, NO-0317, Oslo, Norway;Research Institute of the Norwegian Medical Association, Postbox 1152, NO-0107, SentrumOslo, Norway;Department of Health Management and Health Economics, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Norway;The Research Institute, NO-3370, Modum BadVikersund, Norway;The Research Institute, NO-3370, Modum BadVikersund, Norway;Department of Behavioural Sciences in Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Boks 1111 Blindern, NO-0317, Oslo, Norway;The Research Institute, NO-3370, Modum BadVikersund, Norway;Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway;

关键词: Coping Strategy;    Sick Leave;    Emotional Exhaustion;    Active Coping;    Standardize Root Mean Square Residual;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-10-213

 received in 2009-10-22, accepted in 2010-04-27,  发布年份 2010

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundKnowledge about important factors in reduction of burnout is needed, but there is a dearth of burnout intervention program studies and their effects among physicians. The present three-year follow-up study aimed to investigate the roles of coping strategies, job stress and personality traits in burnout reduction after a counselling intervention for distressed physicians.Methods227 physicians who attended a counselling intervention for burnout at the Resource Centre Villa Sana, Norway in 2003-2005, were followed with self-report assessments at baseline, one-year, and three-year follow-up. Main outcome measures were emotional exhaustion (one dimension of burnout), job stress, coping strategies and neuroticism. Changes in these measures were analyzed with repeated measures ANOVA. Temporal relationships between changes were examined using structural modelling with cross-lagged and synchronous panel models.Results184 physicians (81%, 83 men, 101 women) completed the three-year follow-up assessment. Significantly reduced levels of emotional exhaustion, job stress, and emotion-focused coping strategies from baseline to one year after the intervention, were maintained at three-year follow-up.Panel modelling indicated that changes in emotion-focused coping (z = 4.05, p < 0.001) and job stress (z = 3.16, p < 0.01) preceded changes in emotional exhaustion from baseline to three-year follow-up. A similar pattern was found from baseline to one-year follow-up.ConclusionA sequential relationship indicated that reduction in emotion-focused coping and in job stress preceded reduction in emotional exhaustion. As a consequence, coping strategies and job stress could be important foci in intervention programs that aim to reduce or prevent burnout in help-seeking physicians.

【 授权许可】

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