Open AccessDoes the Maslach Burnout Inventory correlate with cognitive performance in anesthesia practitioners? A pilot study
Author(s) -
Eleonora Orena,
Dario Caldiroli,
Paolo Cortellazzi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
saudi journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.416
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1658-354X
pISSN - 0975-3125
DOI - 10.4103/1658-354x.115351
Subject(s) - burnout , medicine , emotional exhaustion , depersonalization , anxiety , cognition , population , clinical psychology , affect (linguistics) , psychiatry , psychology , environmental health , communication
Chronic stress is a common condition among health-care operators, anesthetists in particular. It is known to cause cognitive weakening and pathological outcomes, as the Burnout syndrome. Nevertheless, the impact of clinicians' health on their performance has received limited attention thus far. Our pilot study, aims at evaluating the influence of burnout on the cognitive performance in a population of anesthesia practitioners.