Burn Out and Quality of Life at French General Practioners

Maslach Burn-out Inventory scale, 22 Items sort to 0 (never) at 6 (every day) 3 class : An emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP) and a reduction of personal accomplishment (AP)

• The emotional exhaustion (when emotional resources are exhausted, when the workers can no longer give their best, psychologically speaking.)
• The Depersonalization (reflects withdrawal, indifference to work)
• The lose of personal accomplishment (devaluation, negative self-evaluation at work)

Our study focused on severe burn-out, defined by the combination of high EE and DP scores and low AP scores:

• A high EE is defined by a score > 30
• A high PD is defined by a score > 12
• A low PA is defined by a score < 33.

The Duke Health Profile 17 items questionnaire. It assesses health-related quality of life and has 10 dimensions.

The score of each of the 10 dimensions matches with the sum of the item scores, standardized from 0 to 100:

• For the 6 health scores (general, physical, mental, social, perceived health and self-esteem) 100 specifies the best HRQoL,
• For the 4 scores of the dysfunction dimension (anxiety, depression, pain, disability), 100 specifies the most significant dysfunction

• age, (years)
• sex, (female, male)
• children, (children number)

• mode of practice (alone, group, liberal..),
• the number of hours worked, (hours)
• the number of monthly guards, (months)
• the number of daily acts, (acts number)
• the number of weeks of annual leave, (weeks)

• he practice of a sports or leisure activity, (yes, not)
• he presence or absence of a work stoppage during the last twelve months (weeks)
• the duration, the need to have had to adjust his working time (yes, not)