Awareness of meaning in life is protective against burnout among family physicians

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Burnout is considered a public health crisis among physicians and is related to poor quality of life, increased medical errors, and lower patient satisfaction. A recent literature review and conceptual model suggest that awareness of life meaning, or meaning salience, is related to improved stress and coping, and may also reduce experience of burnout. This study examined associations among meaning salience, burnout, fatigue, and quality of life among family medicine residency program directors. METHODS: Data were collected via an online survey administered by the Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM) Educational Research Alliance (CERA; n=268, response rate of 45.4%) in December 2018. Program directors completed measures of meaning salience, burnout, fatigue, and quality of life. Data were analyzed using Spearman correlations and path analysis. RESULTS: Program directors who reported greater experienced meaning salience also reported significantly less burnout (β=-.40, P

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Hooker, S. A., Post, R. E., & Sherman, M. D. (2020). Awareness of meaning in life is protective against burnout among family physicians. Family Medicine, 52(1), 11–16. https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2019.562297

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