ls burnout prevalent among osteopathic practitioners within different clinical settings in the UK?
Item
- Title
- ls burnout prevalent among osteopathic practitioners within different clinical settings in the UK?
- Author(s)
- Pratley, L
- Abstract
- Background: Burnout is defined as a psychological syndrome derived from emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation (excessive detachment from work) and an inadequacy in personal accomplishment in a working environment. lt has been indicated as an abundant issue currently among physiotherapists, chiropractors and nurses yet the quantity of research within the osteopathic community is lacking despite the suggestion by other studies that high levels of burnout significantly impact the quality of patient care. Objectives: The study explored the prevarence of burnout among osteopathic professionals registered within the United Kingdom to investigate the main stressors influencing burnout and if different clinical settings impact the overall levels of burnout. Design: Cross-section questionnaire study. Method: An online burnout questionnaire adapted from both the Osteopathic practice career survey and Copenhagen burnout inventory. Results: The burnout questionnaire was sent to 2003 registered osteopaths in UK and returned via 522 (response rate of 26%). 53.9% females and 46'1% males. The majority of participants (40.6%) occupied a solo positon in practice. The intrusion of work on family life strongly affected practitioners in all positions (P=.0303) and parlicularly participants aged between 35-39 years (P=.0071). The copenhagen burnout inventory reporled 4.1% of participants experienced a very high level of burnout. From this 48.9% attributed this to work-related burnout. Discussion: Recent studies provided extensive research into the levels of burnout among the health care profession particularly among the nursing community yet there was limited evidence and consistency between studies on the pre-disposing variables and influential demographic characteristics. The extent of research and investigation among the osteopathic community is limited and poorly reviewed; there is a lack of current comparative data for the study. Conclusion: Osteopathic professionals in the UK did report experiencing a very high level of burnout. From this, it is suggested that younger female practitioners working in a clinic with 2-3 practitioners either in an associate or head of clinic role seeing over 20 patients a week and working more than 40 hours a week are more vulnerable to developing high levels of burnout.
- presented at
- European School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2017
- Date Submitted
- 4.12.2017 17:06:21
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 16059
- Inst-Identifier
- 1229
- Keywords
- Osteopaths, Burnout, Clinical environments, Occupational stressors
- Recommended
- 0
- Item sets
- Thesis
Pratley, L, “ls burnout prevalent among osteopathic practitioners within different clinical settings in the UK?”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 4, 2025, https://www.osteopathicresearch.com/s/orw/item/477