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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 12, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Compared with non-Hispanic White physicians, physicians in minority racial\/ethnic groups are less likely to report burnout, according to a study published online Aug. 7 in JAMA Network Open<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Luis C. Garcia, from the Stanford University School of Medicine in California, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study using data from 4,424 physicians to examine possible differences in occupational burnout, depressive symptoms, career satisfaction, and work-life integration by race\/ethnicity.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that burnout was observed in 44.7, 41.7, 38.5, and 37.4 percent of non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Asian, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic\/Latinx physicians, respectively. Compared with non-Hispanic White physicians, the adjusted odds of burnout were lower in non-Hispanic Asian, Hispanic\/Latinx, and non-Hispanic Black physicians (odds ratios, 0.77, 0.63, and 0.49, respectively). The likelihood of reporting satisfaction with work-life integration was increased for non-Hispanic Black versus non-Hispanic White physicians (odds ratio, 1.69). Depressive symptoms and career satisfaction did not differ by race\/ethnicity.<\/p>\n
“There remains a need for additional research to not only confirm our results but also elucidate the factors or mechanisms that might underlie the patterns observed in the present study,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
One author was coinventor of the Well-Being Index instruments, and a second author received royalties from these instruments.<\/p>\n
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