Burn Out and Quality of Life at French General Practioners

Completed

• Conditions: Cross-Sectional Studies

• Registration Number: NCT04136899
• Lead Sponsor: Albert TRINH-DUC

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

descriptive quantitative cross-sectional study

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-08-20
• Primary Completion: 2019-08-20
• Study Completion: 2019-08-20
• Study First Submitted: 2019-08-30
• Status Verified: 2019-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-10-21
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-10-21
• Study First Posted: 2019-10-23
• Last Update Posted: 2019-10-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1100

Inclusion Criteria

• french general practitioner in liberal activity

Exclusion Criteria

• retired doctor
• junior general practioner

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assesment quality of life: Dukes Scale	30 days	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
Assesment of Burn-out	30 days	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.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Socio-demographic data	30 days	* age, (years); * sex, (female, male); * children, (children number)
Mode of practice	30 days	* 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)
Leisure time	30 days	* 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)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre Hospitalier St ESPRIT; 🇫🇷 Agen, France