Burn Out and Quality of Life at French General Practioners

Burn Out and Quality of Life at French General Practioners: is There a Link

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Cross-Sectional Studies
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Dukes scale

Detailed Description

descriptive quantitative cross-sectional study

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 1100

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Agen, France, 47000
    • Centre Hospitalier St ESPRIT

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 30 years to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

All french general practitioner in activity

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• french general practitioner in liberal activity

Exclusion Criteria:

• retired doctor
• junior general practioner

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
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.	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	30 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Socio-demographic data	age, (years); sex, (female, male); children, (children number)	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)	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)	30 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Albert TRINH-DUC
• Investigators: Study Director: Albert TRINH-DUC, MD, Centre Hospitalier St ESPRIT

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 20, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 20, 2019
• Study Completion (Actual): August 20, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 30, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 21, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): October 23, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 23, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 21, 2019
• Last Verified: October 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: quality of life; burn out; french; general practioners
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavioral Symptoms; Stress, Psychological; Burnout, Psychological
• Other Study ID Numbers: CHSEsprit AGEN

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No