A Comparision of Job Burnout in General Surgeons and Internists in Isfahan
Subject Areas : Educationalلاله عاطف 1 , مریم روحالامین 2 , ابوالقاسم نوری 3 , حسین مولوی 4
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The purpose of this study was to compare the degree of burnout in general surgeons and internists. Therefore general surgeons and internists were randomly selected from the list of Isfahan medical certificate organization. The Maslash-Jackson Job Burnout Inventory (MJJBI) and a researcher-made Job Satisfaction Inventory (JSI) and a demographic questionnaire were used and filled by all subjects. The internal consistency coefficient for the first two questionnaires were and the concurrent validity coefficient between them was . It was hypothesized that there would be significant differences between the two groups in job-burnout subscales: emotional, personal accomplishment, depersonalization. The results of multivariate analysis of variance showed that general surgeons significantly scored higher on analysis of variance showing that general surgeons significantly scored higher than internists on the following scales: Total job burnout (P= ), emotional exhaustion (P= ), personal accomplishment (P= ), job satisfaction (P= ), however, with regard to depersonalization the difference was not significant. Also female physicians significantly scored higher than males on the following variables: Total job burn-out (P= ), emotional exhaustion (P= ), job satisfaction (P= ). But the differences between the males and females mean score of depersonalization and personal accomplishment were not significant.
