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. 2018 Jun 11;2:4. Originally published 2018 Jan 18. [Version 3] doi: 10.12688/gatesopenres.12779.3

Table 2. Prevalence of burnout among outpatient healthcare providers.

Author, year Emotional
Exhaustion (%) a
(Mean Score ± SD)
Depersonalization (%) a
(Mean Score ± SD)
Personal
Achievement (%) a
(Mean Score ± SD)
Other Results
Benevides-Pereira,
2007
Low, 40.2%
Moderate, 33.3%
High, 26.4%
(19.1 ± 10.3)
Low, 56.3%
Moderate, 26.4%
High, 17.2%
(4.2 ± 5.4)
Low, 40.2%
Moderate, 40.2%
High, 19.5%
(39.6 ± 7.2)
-
da Silva, 2008 Moderate or High,
70.9%
Moderate or High, 34.0% Moderate or High,
47.5%
Report of aspects related
to burnout, 84.4%
Burnout by MBI criteria,
24.1%
Engelbrecht, 2008 Low, 0.2%
Moderate, 30.9%
High, 68.7%
(31.3 ± 9.3)
Low, 1.8%
Moderate, 12.9%
High, 85.1%
(17.8 ± 5.0)
Low, 0.7%
Moderate, 91.0%
High, 8.3%
(20.3 ± 6.8)
-
Kruse, 2009 Not Reported Not Reported Not Reported No Burnout, 6.9%
Stress without Burnout,
42.0%
Occasional Burnout,
23.3%
Burnout not improving,
4.3%
Severe Burnout, 23.5%
Putnik, 2011 Male
Low: 22.4%
Moderate: 36.2%
High: 41.4%
(2.3 ± 1.3)

Female
Low: 17.0%
Moderate: 33.7%
High: 49.4%
(2.5 ± 1.3)
Male
Low: 48.3%
Moderate: 46.6%
High: 5.2%
(0.7 ± 0.7)

Female
Low: 55.4%
Moderate: 30.1%
High: 14.4%
(0.8 ± 0.9)
Male
Low: 10.3%
Moderate: 15.5%
High: 74.1%
(5.1 ± 1.1)

Female
Low: 4.2%
Moderate: 17.3%
High: 78.5%
(5.1 ± 5.2)
-
Ge, 2011 City of Shenyang (7.2
± 5.5)
City of Benxi (6.9 ±
5.8)
City of Shenyang (3.6 ± 4.3)
City of Benxi (3.3 ± 4.4)
City of Shenyang (24.4
± 10.8)
City of Benxi (25.4 ±
10.5)
-
Malakouti, 2011 Low, 72.6%
Moderate, 15.1%
High, 12.3%
(14.5 ± 9.9)
Low, 86.7%
Moderate, 8.0%
High, 5.3%
(2.2 ± 3.4)
Low, 43.7%
Moderate, 19.0%
High, 37.4%
(33.8 ± 10.4)
-
Calgan b, 2011 Moderate, 27.1% c
High, 1.2%
(16.8 ± 6.3)
Moderate, 13.9% c
High, 0.8%
(Mean 4.0, Range 0–14)
Moderate, 24.7% c
High, 71.3%
(Mean 22.0, Range
9–32)
-
Alameddine, 2012 Low, 59.1%
Moderate, 17.7%
High, 23.2%
Low, 70.7%
Moderate, 15.5%
High, 13.8%
Low, 64.9%
Moderate, 16.4%
High, 8.7%
-
Akintola, 2013 Not Reported High, 50%
(8.5 ± 1.6)
High, 60%
(8.9 ± 1.2)
-
Jocic, 2014 Not Reported Not Reported Not Reported No Burnout, 37.1%
Risk for Burnout, 9.0%
Before Burnout, 9.6%
Burnout, 29.7%
Combustion, 14.7%
Karakose, 2014 Male (mean 2.8 ±
1.2)
Female (mean 3.4 ±
1.1)
Male (mean 2.5 ± 1.0)
Female (mean 2.5 ± 1.1)
Male (mean 4.0 ± 1.0)
Female (mean 3.9 ± 0.8)
-
Ding, 2014 Mean (10.1 ± 6.5) Mean (5.7 ± 5.2) Mean (24.1 ± 9.3) -
Cagan, 2015 Male (median 14.0)
Female (median
24.0)
Male (median 4.0)
Female (median 3.0)
Male (median 15.0)
Female (median 23.0)
-
Cao, 2015 Mean (27.0 ± 10.6) Mean (8.4 ± 7.0) Mean (25.7 ± 9.3) -
Silva, 2015 Low, 36%
Average, 21%
High, 43%
Low 51%
Average, 33%
High, 17%
Low, 32%
Average, 43%
High, 25%
Burnout risk:
High 27.8%
Medium 26.3%
Low 45.9%
Muliira, 2015 Not reported Not reported Not reported Low level of burnout,
  0% (male), 1.8% (female)
Average level of burnout
  17.0% (male), 71.0%
(female)
High level of burnout
 2.2% (male), 8.0%
 (female)
Hu, 2015 ≤30 years, mean
(12.1 ± 5.3)
31–40 years, mean
(14.2 ± 5.6)
≥41 years, mean
(13.6 ± 6.3)
≤30 years, mean (16.1 ± 7.3)
31–40 years, mean
(15.3 ± 6.7)
≥41 years, mean (14.6 ± 5.7)
≤30 years, mean
(22.1 ± 7.5)
31–40 years, mean
(20.9 ± 7.2)
≥41 years, mean
(20.1 ± 6.5)
-
Pandey, 2015 Not reported Not reported Not reported Mean burnout (4.0 ± 1.4)
Cao, 2016 26.5 ± 10.5 8.6 ± 6.5 24.7 ± 9.4 -

Key:

aPrevalence reported as percentage of participants with scores. Higher Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization, and lower Personal Accomplishment, are associated with higher burnout Low refers to low score, Moderate refers to moderate score, and High refers to high score

bvalues are relative to Hungarian national norms 41