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Understanding emotional and health indicators underlying the burnout risk of healthcare workers

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  • Elçin Güveyi
  • Garry Elvin
  • Angela Kennedy
  • Zeyneb Kurt
  • Petia Sice
  • Paras Patel
  • Antoinette Dubruel
  • Drummond Heckels

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Burnout of healthcare workers is of increasing concern as workload pressures mount. Burnout is usually conceptualised as resulting from external pressures rather than internal resilience and although is not a diagnosable condition, it is related to help seeking for its psychological sequelae. To understand how staff support services can intervene with staff heading for burnout, it is important to understand what other intrapsychic factors are related to it. A diary tool was used by staff in a region of England to self-monitor their wellbeing over time. The tool explores many areas of mental health and wellbeing and enabled regression analysis to predict which of the various factors provided the strongest indicators of burnout. Using a multiple linear regression model, burnout was found to be most associated with depression, receptiveness, mental wellbeing, and connectedness (p

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  • Elçin Güveyi & Garry Elvin & Angela Kennedy & Zeyneb Kurt & Petia Sice & Paras Patel & Antoinette Dubruel & Drummond Heckels, 2025. "Understanding emotional and health indicators underlying the burnout risk of healthcare workers," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 20(1), pages 1-12, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0302604
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0302604
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