Why Do Emergency Medicine Residents Experience Burn Out? A qualitative study
Objective: Emergency medicine residents are a high–risk group for burnout syndrome. This was a qualitative study with content analysis on emergency medical residents with 2 aims: evaluating the incidence of occupational burnout syndrome and identifying the points of view and attitudes of emergency m...
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| author | Atefe Kamaloo Ahmad Ahmadipour Ali labbaf Elham Hesari Somaye Valadkhani Jeyran Zebardast Mohammad Arbabi |
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| description | Objective: Emergency medicine residents are a high–risk group for burnout syndrome. This was a qualitative study with content analysis on emergency medical residents with 2 aims: evaluating the incidence of occupational burnout syndrome and identifying the points of view and attitudes of emergency medical residents about factors related to occupational burnout syndrome.
Method: For this study, 2 sessions of focus group discussions were set up at Imam Khomeini hospital affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Each session took 90 minutes, and 20 emergency medicine residents in their first or second year of emergency medicine residency participated in the sessions. Data were coded by MAXQDA10 software.
Results: Data were categorized in 4 themes as follow: (1) the characteristics of emergency medicine; (2) ambiguity in residents’ duties; (3) educational planning; and (4) careers.
Data on the proposed solutions by residents were analyzed and coded in 3 groups including (1) changes in personal life; (2) arrangement in shifts; and (3) educational issues.
Conclusion: According to findings of this qualitative study, most of emergency medicine residents have experienced exhaustion sometime during the course of their residency. Psychological supports may help the residents to cope with their career difficulties and probable burn out. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1d2f9d431f82492ca55ba27749a8f98f2022-12-22T01:35:25ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesIranian Journal of Psychiatry1735-45872008-22152017-06-01123600Why Do Emergency Medicine Residents Experience Burn Out? A qualitative studyAtefe Kamaloo0Ahmad Ahmadipour1Ali labbaf2Elham Hesari3Somaye Valadkhani4Jeyran Zebardast5Mohammad Arbabi6Department of psychiatry Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran, Iran.Department of psychiatry Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran, Iran.Department of Emergency Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, Iran.Department of Emergency Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, IranDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, IranTehran University of Medical Sciences, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran, Iran.Department of psychiatry,psychosomatic ward,Imam Khomeini hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.Objective: Emergency medicine residents are a high–risk group for burnout syndrome. This was a qualitative study with content analysis on emergency medical residents with 2 aims: evaluating the incidence of occupational burnout syndrome and identifying the points of view and attitudes of emergency medical residents about factors related to occupational burnout syndrome. Method: For this study, 2 sessions of focus group discussions were set up at Imam Khomeini hospital affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Each session took 90 minutes, and 20 emergency medicine residents in their first or second year of emergency medicine residency participated in the sessions. Data were coded by MAXQDA10 software. Results: Data were categorized in 4 themes as follow: (1) the characteristics of emergency medicine; (2) ambiguity in residents’ duties; (3) educational planning; and (4) careers. Data on the proposed solutions by residents were analyzed and coded in 3 groups including (1) changes in personal life; (2) arrangement in shifts; and (3) educational issues. Conclusion: According to findings of this qualitative study, most of emergency medicine residents have experienced exhaustion sometime during the course of their residency. Psychological supports may help the residents to cope with their career difficulties and probable burn out.https://ijps.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijps/article/view/1116Emergency MedicineBurn OutResidents |
| spellingShingle | Atefe Kamaloo Ahmad Ahmadipour Ali labbaf Elham Hesari Somaye Valadkhani Jeyran Zebardast Mohammad Arbabi Why Do Emergency Medicine Residents Experience Burn Out? A qualitative study Iranian Journal of Psychiatry Emergency Medicine Burn Out Residents |
| title | Why Do Emergency Medicine Residents Experience Burn Out? A qualitative study |
| title_full | Why Do Emergency Medicine Residents Experience Burn Out? A qualitative study |
| title_fullStr | Why Do Emergency Medicine Residents Experience Burn Out? A qualitative study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why Do Emergency Medicine Residents Experience Burn Out? A qualitative study |
| title_short | Why Do Emergency Medicine Residents Experience Burn Out? A qualitative study |
| title_sort | why do emergency medicine residents experience burn out a qualitative study |
| topic | Emergency Medicine Burn Out Residents |
| url | https://ijps.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijps/article/view/1116 |
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