Dr. DeChant, a healthcare consultant who co-wrote a book on physician burnout, discussed the issue’s rise in a Sept. 13 episode of the American Medical Association’s podcast, “AMA Update.”
Dr. DeChant pointed to six factors — originally identified by Christina Maslach, PhD, a social psychologist and researcher at the University of California Berkeley — that the pandemic has compounded, influencing the rise in burnout.
The factors she outlined:
1. Work overload
2. Lack of control
3. Insufficient rewards
4. Breakdown of community
5. Sense of unfairness
6. Conflicting values
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