Evaluation of Pediatric resident physicians of Tehran university of medical sciences’ occupational burnout based on Maslach questionnaire in 2020-2021.

Most of a person's life is spent in employment. Today, we see a trend and special attention to the issue of job burnout all over the world. Burnout is a psychological symptom, an ongoing response to chronic personal and emotional stress in the workplace. Pediatric resident physicians are exposed to job burnout for various reasons, which reduces the quality of service delivery. Therefore, due to the importance of paying attention to the issue of job burnout and also the lack of a studies in this field in the community of pediatric resident physicians of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, this study was conducted with the aim of investigating the job burnout of pediatric resident physicians of Tehran University of Medical Sciences based on Maslach questionnaire in 2020-2021.

This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on 57 active in Pediatric resident physicians of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. To determine the level and intensity of job burnout, the Persianized Maslach questionnaire was used. To analyze the data, first descriptive statistics were used, including the mean standard deviation of burnout scores and their severity, and for comparison, a two-sample t-test or Mann-Whitney test was used. SPSS 26 software was used for data analysis.

The average intensity of job burnout in pediatric resident physicians of Tehran University of Medical Sciences is 55.45 and also the mean frequency of job burnout in pediatric resident physicians of Tehran University of Medical Sciences is 62.1.  In this study, there was no significant difference between the severity and frequency of job burnout with age, marital status, and work experience. However, a significant relationship was observed between the intensity of emotional burnout and the number of working days per week. A significant relationship was observed between the frequency of emotional burnout and living in a family. A significant relationship was observed between the severity of personality disorder and having children.

Based on the results of this study, job burnout among pediatric resident physicians of Tehran University of Medical Sciences showed the level of severe personal failure in terms of frequency and in average level, while this variable in the dimensions of emotional exhaustion has low intensity and moderate frequency, and depersonalization has low intensity and frequency.