Advanced search
Publication Cover
Psychology, Health & Medicine Volume 21, 2016 - Issue 3
Submit an article Journal homepage
1,531
Views
40
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Burnout, empathy and their relationships: a qualitative study with residents in General Medicine

Jeanne PicardGeneral Medecine Department, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
,
Annie Catu-PinaultGeneral Medecine Department, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
,
Emilie BoujutLaboratoire Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé, Institut Universitaire de Psychologie de Paris Descartes, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
,
Marion BotellaLaboratoire Adaptation Travail Individu, Institut Universitaire de Psychologie de Paris Descartes, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris cité-Sorbonne, 71 avenue Edouard Vaillant, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
,
Philippe JauryGeneral Medecine Department, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
&
Franck ZenasniLaboratoire Adaptation Travail Individu, Institut Universitaire de Psychologie de Paris Descartes, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris cité-Sorbonne, 71 avenue Edouard Vaillant, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, FranceCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 354-361 | Received 15 Jan 2015, Accepted 19 May 2015, Published online: 15 Jun 2015

References

  • Brazeau, C. M., Schroeder, R., Rovi, S., & Boyd, L. (2010). Relationships between medical student burnout, empathy, and professionalism climate. Academic Medicine, 85(Suppl. 10), S33–S36. doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181ed4c47
  • Halpern, J. (2012). Gathering the patient’s story and clinical empathy. The Permanente Journal, 16, 52–54.
  • Heje, H. N., Vedsted, P., Sokolowski, I., & Olesen, F. (2008). Patient characteristics associated with differences in patients’ evaluation of their general practitioner. BMC Health Services Research, 8, 178. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-178
  • Hojat, M., Gonnella, J. S., Nasca, T. J., Mangione, S., Vergare, M., & Magee, M. (2002). Physician empathy: Definition, components, measurement, and relationship to gender and specialty. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 1563–1569.10.1176/appi.ajp.159.9.1563
  • Lamothe, M., Boujut, E., Zenasni, F., & Sultan, S. (2014). To be or not to be empathic? The combined role of empathic concern and perspective taking to understand burnout in general practice. BMC Family Practice, 15, 1–7. doi:10.1186/1471-2296-15-15
  • Larson, E. B., & Yao, X. (2005). Clinical empathy as emotional labor in the patient–physician relationship. JAMA, 293, 1100–1106.10.1001/jama.293.9.1100
  • Mazurkiewicz, R., Korenstein, D., Fallar, R., & Ripp, J. (2012). The prevalence and correlations of medical student burnout in the pre-clinical years: A cross-sectional study. Psychology Health & Medicine, 17, 188–195.10.1080/13548506.2011.597770
  • Neumann, M., Edelhäuser, F., Tauschel, D., Fischer, M. R., Wirtz, M., Woopen, C., … Scheffer, C. (2011). Empathy decline and its reasons: A systematic review of studies with medical students and residents. Academic Medicine, 86, 996–1009. doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e318221e615
  • Nielsen, H. G., & Tulinius, C. (2009). Preventing burnout among general practitioners: Is there a possible route? Education for Primary Care, 20, 353–359.
  • Tayfur, O., & Arslan, M. (2013). The role of lack of reciprocity, supervisory support, workload and work–family conflict on exhaustion: Evidence from physicians. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 18, 564–575. doi:10.1080/13548506.2012.756535
  • Thomas, M. R., Dyrbye, L. N., Huntington, J. L., Lawson, K. L., Novotny, P. J., Sloan, J. A., & Shanafelt, T. D. (2007). How do distress and well-being relate to medical student empathy? A multicenter study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 22, 177–183. doi:10.1007/s11606-006-0039-6
  • Truchot, D., Roncari, N., & Bantegnie, D. (2011). Burnout, patient compliance and psychological withdrawal among GPs: An exploratory study. Encephale, 37, 48–53. doi:10.1016/j.encep.2010.03.011
  • Verheul, W., Sanders, A., & Bensing, J. (2010). The effects of physicians’ affect-oriented communication style and raising expectations on analogue patients’ anxiety, affect and expectancies. Patient Education and Counselling, 80, 300–306. doi:10.1016/j.pec.2010.06.017
  • Zenasni, F., Boujut, E., Bluffel du Vaure, C., Catu-Pinault, A., Tavani, J. L., Rigal, L., … Sultan, S. (2012). Development of a French-language version of the Jefferson scale of physician empathy and association with practice characteristics and burnout in a sample of general practitioners. International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine, 2, 759–766. doi:10.5750/ijpcm.v2i4.295
  • Zenasni, F., Boujut, E., Woerner, A., & Sultan, S. (2012). Burnout and empathy in primary care: Three hypotheses. British Journal of General Practice, 62, 346–347. doi:10.3399/bjgp12X652193
  • Zwack, J., & Schweitzer, J. (2013). If every fifth physician is affected by burnout, what about the other four? Resilience strategies of experienced physicians. Academic Medicine, 88, 382–389. doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e318281696b

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Supercharge Your Next Research Paper: Research and write your next paper with Jenni AI.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.