Burn Out and Quality of Life at French General Practioners

Cross-Sectional Studies Clinical Trial

Official title:

Burn Out and Quality of Life at French General Practioners: is There a Link

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04136899
• Other study ID #: CHSEsprit AGEN
• Status: Completed
• Start date: August 20, 2019
• Est. completion date: August 20, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: October 2019
• Source: Centre Hospitalier St Esprit
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The suffering of caregivers is constantly increasing. General medicine, because of its primary role in primary care, is particularly exposed to the risk of burn-out and must protect itself. The aim of this study was to find an inverse relationship between health-related quality of life and being severely burned by French general practitioners.

Description:

descriptive quantitative cross-sectional study

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 1100
• Est. completion date: August 20, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: August 20, 2019
• Gender: All
• Age group: 30 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• french general practitioner in liberal activity

Exclusion Criteria:

• retired doctor

• junior general practioner

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burnout, Psychological
• Cross-Sectional Studies

Intervention

Other:
• Dukes scale
collection of questionnaires

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Centre Hospitalier St ESPRIT	Agen

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Albert TRINH-DUC

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Assesment of Burn-out	Maslach Burn-out Inventory scale, 22 Items sort to 0 (never) at 6 (every day) 3 class : An emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and a reduction of personal accomplishment (AP); The emotional exhaustion (when emotional resources are exhausted, when the workers can no longer give their best, psychologically speaking.); The Depersonalization (reflects withdrawal, indifference to work); The lose of personal accomplishment (devaluation, negative self-evaluation at work); Our study focused on severe burn-out, defined by the combination of high EE and DP scores and low AP scores: A high EE is defined by a score > 30; A high PD is defined by a score > 12; A low PA is defined by a score < 33.	30 days
Primary	Assesment quality of life: Dukes Scale	The Duke Health Profile 17 items questionnaire. It assesses health-related quality of life and has 10 dimensions.; The score of each of the 10 dimensions matches with the sum of the item scores, standardized from 0 to 100: For the 6 health scores (general, physical, mental, social, perceived health and self-esteem) 100 specifies the best HRQoL,; For the 4 scores of the dysfunction dimension (anxiety, depression, pain, disability), 100 specifies the most significant dysfunction	30 days
Secondary	Socio-demographic data	age, (years); sex, (female, male); children, (children number)	30 days
Secondary	Mode of practice	mode of practice (alone, group, liberal..),; the number of hours worked, (hours); the number of monthly guards, (months); the number of daily acts, (acts number); the number of weeks of annual leave, (weeks)	30 days
Secondary	Leisure time	he practice of a sports or leisure activity, (yes, not); he presence or absence of a work stoppage during the last twelve months (weeks); the duration, the need to have had to adjust his working time (yes, not)	30 days