Table 3.

Relationship Between Burnout, Symptoms of Depression, Quality of Life, and Satisfaction with Career and Personal Relationship by Experience of a Recent Work–Home Conflict (WHC) in a National Sample of Physicians and Their Employed Partners

	Physicians		Partners of physicians
	Recent WHC	No recent WHC	Recent WHC	No recent WHC
	N = 2,811	N = 3,534	N = 280	N = 223
Burnout indices, No. (%)
High emotional exhaustion	1,148/2,799 (41.0 %)	674/3,499 (19.3 %)*	53/278 (19.1 %)	12/223 (5.4 %)*
High Depersonalization	681/2,791 (24.4 %)	406/3,504 (11.6 %)*	29/271 (10.7 %)	9/219 (4.1 %)†
Burned out	1,315/2,789 (47.1 %)	836/3,485 (24.0 %)*	65/271 (24.0 %)	17/219 (7.8 %)*
Depression screen positive, No. (%)	1,412/2,797 (50.4 %)	930/3,499 (26.6 %)*	118/278 (42.4 %)	53/223 (23.8 %)*
Quality of life, Mean (SD)
Overall	6.9 (1.9)	7.9 (1.6)*	7.5 (1.7)	8.2 (1.4)*
Mental	6.6 (2.1)	7.9 (1.7)*	7.1 (1.8)	8.0 (1.7)*
Physical	6.2 (2.2)	7.3 (1.9)*	6.9 (2.0)	7.6 (1.8)*
Fatigue	5.1 (2.3)	6.5 (2.3)*	5.8 (2.1)	6.6 (2.1)*
Relationship satisfaction, No. (%)
Seriously contemplated separation or divorce	393/2,802 (14.0 %)	304/3,525 (8.6 %)*	38/277 (13.7 %)	24/222 (10.8 %)
Satisfaction with partner
Extremely satisfied	1,533/2,803 (54.7 %)	2,349/3,530 (66.5 %)*	145/280 (51.8 %)	125/221 (56.6 %)
Somewhat satisfied	892/2,803 (31.8 %)	849/3,530 (24.1 %)	95/280 (33.9 %)	70/221 (31.7 %)
Neutral	129/2,803 (4.6 %)	134/3,530 (3.8 %)	12/280 (4.3 %)	9/221 (4.1 %)
Somewhat dissatisfied	185/2,803 (6.6 %)	137/3,530 (3.9 %)	23/280 (8.2 %)	13/221 (5.9 %)
Extremely dissatisfied	64/2,803 (2.3 %)	61/3,530 (1.7 %)	5/280 (1.8 %)	4/221 (1.8 %)
Would choose physician as a partner/spouse again			215/275 (78.2 %)	182/221 (82.4 %)
Satisfaction with medicine, No. (%)
Would choose to become a physician again	1,767/2,804 (63.0 %)	2,715/3,519 (77.2 %)*
Would choose specialty again	1,843/2,805 (65.7 %)	2,674/3,517 (76.0 %)*

^* p < 0.0001

^† p < 0.01