• Mayo Clinic proceedings · Oct 2024

    Impact of Work on Personal Relationships and Physician Well-being.

    • Mickey T Trockel, Liselotte N Dyrbye, Colin P West, Christine A Sinsky, Hanhan Wang, Lindsey E Carlasare, Michael Tutty, and Tait D Shanafelt.
    • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA. Electronic address: trockel@stanford.edu.
    • Mayo Clin. Proc. 2024 Oct 1; 99 (10): 156715761567-1576.

    ObjectiveTo assess the impact of work on personal relationships (IWPR) by specialty and demographic variables in a national sample of physicians, to assess the association between the IWPR and burnout, and to determine the effect of adjusting for IWPR on the risk of burnout associated with being a physician.MethodsAnalysis was conducted of data from a representative sample of US physicians surveyed between November 20, 2020, and March 23, 2021, and from a probability-based sample of other US workers. IWPR and burnout were measured with published assessments.ResultsOf the 7360 physicians who responded to the survey, 6271 (85.2%) completed the IWPR assessment. In multivariable analysis, moderate or higher IWPR was associated with female sex (odds ratio [OR], 1.26; 95% CI, 1.11 to 1.43), married vs single (OR, 0.59; 95% CI, 0.48 to 0.71), and emergency medicine (OR, 1.93; 95% CI, 1.43 to 2.60) or physical and rehabilitative medicine (OR, 1.67; 95% CI, 1.12 to 2.50) vs internal medicine subspecialty. Physicians were more likely than workers in other fields (OR, 2.65; 95% CI, 2.33 to 3.02) to endorse the statement "In the past year, my job contributed to me feeling more isolated or detached from the people who are important to me" as at least moderately true. After adjustment for responses to this statement, work hours, and demographic characteristics, being a physician was not associated with the risk of burnout.ConclusionIWPR is associated with burnout. Adjustment for IWPR eliminated the observed difference in burnout between physicians and workers in other fields. Interventions that identify and mitigate work practices that have a negative impact on physicians' personal relationships and interventions that support affected individual physicians are warranted.Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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