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The goals of this paper were twofold: (a) To provide a population overview of burnout profiles by occupation in a large, health care sector employee population and (b) to investigate how burnout profiles relate to self-reported health behaviours, chronic conditions, and absenteeism. Burnout profiles were considered by 5 main occupational groups (physicians, nurses, other clinical, administrative, and wage grade trade, craft, and labor workers) in survey respondents (n = 86,257 employees). Logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine how burnout profiles were associated with health controlling for gender, age, race, ethnicity, and occupational group. Employees in the "Frustrated/Burning Up" and "Withdrawing/Burned Out" profiles, respectively, had significantly increased odds of anxiety (OR = 2.17; 99% CI 2.04, 2.31; OR = 2.21; 99% CI 2.05, 2.38), depression (OR = 2.06; 99% CI 1.93, 2.20; OR = 2.20; 99% CI 2.04, 2.38), sleep disorders (OR = 1.98; 99% CI 1.85, 2.12; OR = 1.97; 99% CI 1.81, 2.13), low back disease (OR = 1.60; 99% CI 1.50, 1.71; OR = 1.58; 99% CI 1.47, 1.70), physical inactivity (OR = 1.49; 99% CI 1.38, 1.60; OR = 1.68; 99% CI 1.54, 1.83), and 5 or more days away from work (OR = 1.74; 99% CI 1.65, 1.85; OR = 2.15; 99% CI 2.01, 2.30). Burnout is related to the health of employees. Burnout profiles offer a way to assess patterns of burnout by occupational group and may help customize future interventions.
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