Analysis of job burnout and related influencing factors in family physicians in Hongkou District of Shanghai

Objective To understand the condition of job burnout of family physicians in Hongkou District of Shanghai and to analyze the influencing factors.

Methods All registered family physicians in Hongkou District were surveyed with questionnaires of Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey(MBI-GS), Social Support Rating Scale, Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire, and self-designed general demographic questionnaire during January to March 2018.

Results There were 217 family physicians attending this survey with a participation rate of 98.6%, and 51.6% physicians were identified with job burnout. Multivariate logistic regression results showed that social support and coping style didn't affect the occurrence of job burnout (P>0.05), while the old age and the worse health status played important role. Compared with the family physicians under 30 years old, the risk (OR value) of job burnout among the family physicians aged 30-, 40-, and 50- years old was 8.62, 20.87 and 15.06, respectively(P < 0.01). Compared with the family physicians with better health status, the risk(OR value) of job burnout among these with a worse or not so bad health status was 41.59 and 4.59, respectively(P < 0.01).

Conclusion Job burnout is still prevalent among the family physicians in Hongkou District of Shanghai. The main influencing factors of job burnout are age and self-assessed health status under the current social support system circumstances. More efforts should be focused on the older family physicians with worse health status.