Table 3.
Relation between Burnout, Personal and Practice Characteristics
| EE | P | DP | P | PA | P | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low level burnout | Moderate level burnout | High level burnout | Low level burnout | Moderate level burnout | High level burnout | High level burnout | Moderate level burnout | Low level burnout | |||||
| Age | 20-30 y | 17.0% | 19.1% | 34.0% | 0.000 | 16.0% | 23.6% | 33.3% | 0.000 | 14.1% | 25.1% | 83.3% | 0.000 |
| 31-40 y | 35.3% | 42.3% | 35.8% | 37.4% | 38.8% | 37.3% | 38.6% | 37.6% | 16.7% | ||||
| 41-50 y | 21.7% | 22.8% | 24.5% | 21.9% | 24.0% | 21.3% | 27.0% | 18.3% | 0.0% | ||||
| ≧51 y | 25.9% | 15.8% | 5.7% | 24.7% | 13.7% | 8.0% | 20.3% | 19.0% | 0.0% | ||||
| Physician category | Intern | 5.9% | 6.7% | 9.4% | 0.002 | 6.0% | 8.0% | 6.7% | 0.009 | 5.2% | 8.0% | 16.7% | 0.000 |
| Resident | 23.7% | 28.2% | 41.5% | 23.8% | 30.4% | 41.3% | 21.5% | 33.3% | 66.7% | ||||
| V.S. | 70.4% | 65.1% | 49.1% | 70.2% | 61.6% | 52.0% | 73.3% | 58.6% | 16.7% | ||||
| Relationship status | Single | 29.9% | 33.9% | 42.5% | 0.055 | 29.1% | 36.5% | 45.3% | 0.028 | 27.7% | 37.8% | 66.7% | 0.006 |
| Married | 68.9% | 63.8% | 57.5% | 68.9% | 62.7% | 53.3% | 71.3% | 60.2% | 33.3% | ||||
| Others | 1.2% | 2.3% | 0.0% | 1.9% | 0.8% | 1.3% | 1.0% | 2.0% | 0.0% | ||||
| Years in practice | 1-3 y | 20.2% | 17.4% | 12.3% | 0.000 | 18.9% | 16.7% | 18.7% | 0.019 | 19.3% | 17.3% | 0.0% | 0.000 |
| 4-6 y | 12.3% | 15.1% | 20.8% | 13.2% | 16.3% | 16.0% | 13.4% | 15.8% | 0.0% | ||||
| 7-9 y | 8.1% | 12.4% | 8.5% | 9.1% | 10.6% | 10.7% | 9.2% | 10.3% | 16.7% | ||||
| ≧10 y | 40.2% | 32.6% | 19.8% | 39.8% | 28.9% | 24.0% | 41.1% | 28.8% | 0.0% | ||||
| Specialist-in-training | 19.0% | 22.5% | 38.7% | 18.9% | 27.4% | 30.7% | 17.1% | 27.8% | 83.3% | ||||
| Service patient numbers per time | 10-50 P | 67.9% | 62.8% | 52.8% | 0.001 | 66.6% | 62.4% | 54.7% | 0.004 | 67.6% | 61.4% | 0.0% | 0.000 |
| ≧51 P | 13.6% | 13.1% | 8.5% | 14.7% | 9.5% | 12.0% | 14.6% | 10.8% | 16.7% | ||||
| Specialist-in-training | 18.5% | 24.2% | 38.7% | 18.7% | 28.1% | 33.3% | 17.8% | 27.8% | 83.3% | ||||
| Continuous work hours/ time | 3hr-7hr | 19.8% | 7.4% | 1.9% | 0.000 | 17.7% | 6.8% | 4.0% | 0.000 | 14.1% | 11.8% | 0.0% | 0.642 |
| 8hr-12hr | 57.0% | 53.4% | 41.5% | 55.7% | 52.5% | 45.3% | 54.0% | 53.4% | 50.0% | ||||
| 13hr-17hr | 21.2% | 33.9% | 45.3% | 23.8% | 35.7% | 37.3% | 27.0% | 30.8% | 50.0% | ||||
| ≧18hr | 2.0% | 5.4% | 11.3% | 2.8% | 4.9% | 13.3% | 5.0% | 4.0% | 0.0% | ||||
| Total work hours / week | > 39hr | 13.1% | 7.0% | 0.0% | 0.000 | 11.7% | 6.8% | 1.3% | 0.014 | 9.4% | 8.8% | 16.7% | 0.777 |
| 40hr-48hr | 24.4% | 19.1% | 12.3% | 22.1% | 20.2% | 16.0% | 18.8% | 23.1% | 16.7% | ||||
| 49hr-56hr | 22.7% | 19.8% | 14.2% | 21.1% | 20.9% | 16.0% | 23.0% | 18.0% | 16.7% | ||||
| 57hr-64hr | 11.6% | 17.4% | 20.8% | 13.0% | 16.7% | 21.3% | 14.6% | 15.3% | 16.7% | ||||
| ≧65hr | 28.1% | 36.6% | 52.8% | 32.1% | 35.4% | 45.3% | 34.2% | 34.8% | 33.3% | ||||
| On call numbers / week | None | 33.6% | 20.8% | 15.1% | 0.000 | 31.9% | 19.0% | 18.7% | 0.000 | 26.5% | 26.8% | 0.0% | 0.029 |
| 1-20 | 30.9% | 29.2% | 23.6% | 28.9% | 32.7% | 20.0% | 27.2% | 31.3% | 33.3% | ||||
| 21-30 | 14.8% | 15.1% | 13.2% | 12.3% | 19.4% | 13.3% | 12.9% | 16.5% | 16.7% | ||||
| 31-40 | 6.9% | 9.1% | 8.5% | 7.2% | 8.7% | 9.3% | 6.7% | 9.0% | 16.7% | ||||
| ≧41 | 13.8% | 25.8% | 39.6% | 19.6% | 20.2% | 38.7% | 26.7% | 16.3% | 33.3% | ||||
| Medical malpractice experience | Yes | 51.6% | 63.4% | 55.7% | 0.007 | 56.2% | 55.9% | 61.3% | 0.680 | 59.2% | 54.6% | 0.0% | 0.009 |
| No | 48.4% | 36.6% | 44.3% | 43.8% | 44.1% | 38.7% | 40.8% | 45.4% | 100.0% | ||||
| Satisfied with practice specialty | Yes | 68.9% | 52.7% | 32.1% | 0.000 | 68.1% | 50.6% | 22.7% | 0.000 | 63.6% | 53.1% | 16.7% | 0.000 |
| No | 21.5% | 34.6% | 46.2% | 23.4% | 34.2% | 52.0% | 29.0% | 29.8% | 50.0% | ||||
| Specialist-in-training but unsatisfy | 7.2% | 10.7% | 19.8% | 6.0% | 13.3% | 25.3% | 5.9% | 14.3% | 16.7% | ||||
| Specialist-in-training but satisfy | 2.5% | 2.0% | 1.9% | 2.6% | 1.9% | 0.0% | 1.5% | 2.8% | 16.7% | ||||
| Satisfied with patient-physician relationship | Extremely satisfy | 1.2% | 0.7% | 0.0% | 0.000 | 1.5% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.000 | 0.7% | 0.8% | 16.7% | 0.000 |
| Satisfy | 10.1% | 4.7% | 0.9% | 10.2% | 3.0% | 0.0% | 8.7% | 5.3% | 0.0% | ||||
| Moderate | 42.5% | 19.8% | 10.4% | 33.0% | 31.2% | 6.7% | 27.2% | 32.8% | 16.7% | ||||
| Unsatisfy | 34.1% | 48.3% | 32.1% | 37.0% | 43.7% | 36.0% | 38.1% | 40.6% | 0.0% | ||||
| Extremely unsatisfy | 12.1% | 26.5% | 56.6% | 18.3% | 22.1% | 57.3% | 25.2% | 20.6% | 66.7% | ||||