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April 1, 2024European PsychiatryOpen Access

The connection between professional burnout of medical workers and the self-help methods during the COVID-19 pandemic

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EDE. V. DeshchenkoLomonosov Moscow State UniversityJKJ. KoniukhovskaiaNational Research University Higher School of EconomicsOSO. StepanovaLomonosov Moscow State University

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Overview

Survey analysis finds maladaptive self-help methods correlate with severe professional burnout in healthcare workers, highlighting the necessity of early psychological support.

Key Points

  • Medical workers with severe emotional exhaustion and depersonalization frequently rely on informal self-help strategies, yet these methods fail to reduce professional burnout.
  • Eating correlated significantly with emotional exhaustion at r=0.227, while alcohol consumption also showed positive links with depersonalization during the pandemic.
  • Highlights show that psychological help-seeking occurs solely during early emotional exhaustion, indicating interventions must target clinicians before depersonalization develops.

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Deshchenko et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e717fcb6db643587690d6dhttps://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2024.1059
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