Features of Development and Manifestations of Emotional Burnout Syndrome in Physicians

The article analyzes the level and manifestations of professional burnout in medical professionals of different specialties of Ukraine and the influence of the level of personal anxiety in the formation of symptoms of professional burnout. To determine the level of professional burnout of health workers by anonymous survey, 100 people were enrolled. Among them: doctors of the ambulance station – 22 people, paramedics of the ambulance station – 10, surgeons - 20, doctors of therapeutic profile – 48 (pediatricians – 14, cardiologists – 16, family doctors – 18). The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) technique with adaptation by N. Vodopyanova. Differences in indicators of this syndrome according to specialty were found. The most pronounced syndrome of professional burnout on all scales in pediatricians and family doctors, because it is these professional categories spend the most time in direct close communication with patients, manifested by emotional devastation, high personal anxiety, decreased mood, reduced mood yourself. It is noted that the emotional burnout syndrome of doctors goes through three phases, of which in the stress phase it is characterized mainly by excessive experience of psycho-traumatic circumstances, in the phase of resistance is shown by the saving of the emotional sphere, in the phase of exhaustion - by an emotional deficit. The analysis of the dependence between the severity of certain signs of emotional burnout syndrome in doctors and the duration of their hospital practice.