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This 2006 meta-analysis combined past studies on social support and burnout. Overall, social support showed similar links to the three burnout parts: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization (feeling detached or cynical), and reduced personal accomplishment (feeling less effective at work). But the source of support mattered: support from work was more strongly…
This study followed 213 hospital workers at a Toronto teaching hospital with surveys at six time points over 15 months during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses reported the highest moral distress. Early measures of job type and one dimension of burnout (depersonalization) explained about 45% of the differences in moral distress…
This study surveyed 69 pediatric physicians (mean age 44.2, 61% female) in one U.S. children’s hospital network between August 2020 and February 2021. It found that 42% of doctors reported high emotional exhaustion or depersonalization, and that higher self-critical perfectionism was linked to higher emotional exhaustion and depersonalization scores. The…
