Psychiatrist Burnout

What is it about?

Summers et al. estimated the rate of burnout in North American psychiatrists to be 78%. The estimate is problematic for a number of reasons. First, the cutoff on their burnout instrument, the OLBI, was without clinical or theoretical underpinning. Second, the authors mixed together items from two different subscales, only one of which represents burnout. They failed to distinguish burnout from depression. Also problematic is that there are no consensual, clinically valid criteria for burnout.

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