Year: 2024 | Month: May | Volume: 14 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 16-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20240503
Correlation Between Burnout Syndrome and Estimation of Aerobic Capacity in Resident Doctors
Sushama A. Bhandare1, Yuvraj N Athole2, Krupa N. Kataria3
1Assistant Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, Seth GSMC & KEMH, Mumbai, India
2,3 Postgraduate Student, Department of Physiotherapy, Seth GSMC & KEMH, Mumbai, India
Corresponding Author: Sushama A. Bhandare
ABSTRACT
Background: The prevalence of Burnout syndrome has increased over the last few years. The syndrome is experienced by resident doctors, who treat mild to serious illnesses and have to handle emergencies. They have long working hours including surgeries. Work-related stress among healthcare professionals has become a serious health problem and it was found that higher levels of burnout syndrome impacted work capacity and cognition. It is important to analyze the correlation between burnout syndrome and aerobic capacity in resident doctors. This will help physiotherapists gain a more comprehensive analysis of the resident doctor’s health status and help to incorporate preventive intervention and control the risks of another exhaustion/stress-related syndrome.
Material and method: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 58 resident doctors including 42 males & 16 females. The Maslach burnout inventory scale was used to determine burnout syndrome, and 6 MWT was used to measure aerobic capacity. The statistical analysis was performed with Spearman’s correlation coefficient.
Result: The analysis revealed a statistically significant moderate negative relationship between the Vo2 max and EE (r = -0.521, p < 0.0005), a moderate negative relationship between the Vo2 max and DP (r = -0.429, p = 0.001), and a very weak positive relationship between the Vo2max and PA (r = 0.304, p = 0.020). This shows a correlation between a change in Vo2 max scores and mildly impacted personal achievement as well as moderate Emotional exhaustion and depersonalization.
Conclusion: The study thus concluded that participants with lower aerobic capacity showed a high degree of burnout. Therefore, this study concludes that there is a correlation between aerobic capacity and burnout syndrome in resident doctors.
Key words: Depersonalization(DP), Emotional exhaustion(EE), Personal accomplishment(PA), Maslach burnout inventory ( MBI).