The suffering of caregivers is constantly increasing. General medicine, because of its primary role in primary care, is particularly exposed to the risk of burn-out and must protect itself. The aim of this study was to find an inverse relationship between health-related quality of life and being severely burned by French general practitioners.
descriptive quantitative cross-sectional study
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
1,100
collection of questionnaires
Centre Hospitalier St ESPRIT
Agen, France
Assesment of Burn-out
Maslach Burn-out Inventory scale, 22 Items sort to 0 (never) at 6 (every day) 3 class : An emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and a reduction of personal accomplishment (AP) * The emotional exhaustion (when emotional resources are exhausted, when the workers can no longer give their best, psychologically speaking.) * The Depersonalization (reflects withdrawal, indifference to work) * The lose of personal accomplishment (devaluation, negative self-evaluation at work) Our study focused on severe burn-out, defined by the combination of high EE and DP scores and low AP scores: * A high EE is defined by a score \> 30 * A high PD is defined by a score \> 12 * A low PA is defined by a score \< 33.
Time frame: 30 days
Assesment quality of life: Dukes Scale
The Duke Health Profile 17 items questionnaire. It assesses health-related quality of life and has 10 dimensions. The score of each of the 10 dimensions matches with the sum of the item scores, standardized from 0 to 100: * For the 6 health scores (general, physical, mental, social, perceived health and self-esteem) 100 specifies the best HRQoL, * For the 4 scores of the dysfunction dimension (anxiety, depression, pain, disability), 100 specifies the most significant dysfunction
Time frame: 30 days
Socio-demographic data
* age, (years) * sex, (female, male) * children, (children number)
Time frame: 30 days
Mode of practice
* mode of practice (alone, group, liberal..), * the number of hours worked, (hours) * the number of monthly guards, (months) * the number of daily acts, (acts number) * the number of weeks of annual leave, (weeks)
Time frame: 30 days
Leisure time
* he practice of a sports or leisure activity, (yes, not) * he presence or absence of a work stoppage during the last twelve months (weeks) * the duration, the need to have had to adjust his working time (yes, not)
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Time frame: 30 days