Burnout Toll on Empathy Would Mediate the Missing Professional Support in the COVID-19 Outbreak

• Published in: Risk management and healthcare policy Vol. 14; pp. 2231 - 2244
• Main Authors: Bredicean, Cristina, Tamasan, Simona Claudia, Lungeanu, Diana, Giurgi-Oncu, Catalina, Stoica, Ileana-Pepita, Panfil, Anca-Livia, Vasilian, Claudia, Secosan, Ica, Ursoniu, Sorin, Patrascu, Raul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Dove Medical Press Limited 31.05.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd; Dove; Dove Medical Press
• Subjects: Analysis; Anxiety; Burn out (Psychology); Burnout; burnout experience; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Data collection; Empathy; Epidemics; Health care; Health surveys; healthcare workers; Hospitals; Hypotheses; Job stress; maslach burnout inventory; Mediation; mediation model; Medical personnel; Mental depression; Mental health; Negotiation, mediation and arbitration; Occupational health; Original Research; Outbreaks; Pandemics; Patients; phq-9; Professionals; Questionnaires; Romania; Sociodemographics; Statistical analysis; Stress; Surveys; Values; work engagement; Working conditions; Romania; work engagement; burnout experience; PHQ-9; Maslach Burnout Inventory; healthcare workers; mediation model

The year 2020 was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, massively disruptive at the general population level and for healthcare systems. We aimed to evaluate the psychological distress associated with work-related experiences among medical professionals and supporting staff during the pandemic outbreak....