Letter re: Burnout, career satisfaction, and well-being among US neurologists in 2016

Busis et al.1 investigated the prevalence and factors that contribute to burnout, career satisfaction, and well-being in US neurologists. Within the last decade, there has been growing interest in considering factors defined at multiple levels in psychological and health research; multilevel analysis emerged as a way to partly address this need by allowing simultaneous examination of group-level and individual-level factors.2 Given that doctors do not live in a social vacuum, without emotional, cognitive, and behavioral influences, but are active members of working groups with lead roles in health care organizations, a shift of methodology was proposed: multilevel analyses, when applied in burnout research, examine data from people in different groups but working in the same organization, and examine how they influence each other emotionally, by treating obtained data from the subordinates group as nested within actual data from their leaders.3,4 The choice of binary logistic regressions with only individual-level variables neglects the influence of other important variables on emotions and, thus, is restrictive.4 This is evident in findings that support that specific personality-related characteristics of doctors in charge of a hospital clinic predict better burnout than other demographic or individual-level variables.5
Source: Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: WRITECLICK & amp;reg; EDITOR ' S CHOICE Source Type: research