Prevalence of burnout and associated factors among general practitioners in Hubei, China: a cross-sectional study

Gan, Yong; Jiang, Heng; Li, Liqing; Yang, Yudi; Wang, Chao; Liu, Jianxin; Yang, Tingting; Opoku, Sampson; Hu, Sai; Xu, Hongbin; Herath, Chulani; Chang, Yuanyuan; Fang, Pengqian; Lu, Zuxun

doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7755-4

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Multiple linear regression analysis for the association factors with the higher level of burnout and their subscale among GPs (N = 922)

From: Prevalence of burnout and associated factors among general practitioners in Hubei, China: a cross-sectional study

Characteristic	Burnout in all three dimensions		EE		DP		PA
Characteristic	B (SE)	P value	B (SE)	P value	B (SE)	P value	B (SE)	P value
Intercept	88.84 (7.23)	< 0.001	50.65 (4.4)	< 0.001	13.28 (1.79)	< 0.001	23.09 (4.69)	< 0.001
Age (years)	− 0.01(0.22)	0.951	− 0.11(0.13)	0.385	−0.04 (0.05)	0.463	−0.14 (0.14)	0.317
Work tenure (years)	−0.10 (0.19)	0.611	−0.02 (0.11)	0.842	0.01 (0.05)	0.866	0.08 (0.12)	0.509
Job satisfaction	− 1.30 (0.10)	< 0.001	−0.65 (4.40)	< 0.001	−0.20 (0.02)	< 0.001	0.46 (0.06)	< 0.001
Sex
Men	1.95 (1.40)	0.164	−0.13 (0.85)	0.878	0.55 (0.35)	0.111	−1.53 (0.91)	0.093
Women	0.00	0.164	0.00	0.878	0.00	0.111	0.00	0.093
Education level
Associated degree or vocational diploma^a	1.43 (1.34)	0.287	−0.07 (0.82)	0.933	−0.02 (0.33)	0.96	−1.52 (0.87)	0.08
Bachelor degree or higher	0.00	0.287	0.00	0.933	0.00	0.96	0.00	0.08
Marital status
Married	−5.37 (2.46)	0.03	−2.86 (1.50)	0.056	−1.17 (0.61)	0.054	1.33 (1.60)	0.404
Unmarried/widow/divorced	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.056	0.00	0.054	0.00	0.404
Contract status
Permanent	0.25 (1.42)	0.86	0.31 (0.86)	0.723	−0.23 (0.35)	0.51	−0.18 (0.92)	0.846
Temporary^b	0.00	0.86	0.00	0.723	0.00	0.51	0.00	0.846
Job title
Elementary or less^c	−0.13 (1.46)	0.93	−1.96 (0.89)	0.028	0.78 (0.36)	0.03	−1.04 (0.95)	0.271
Intermediate or higher^d	0.00	0.93	0.00	0.028	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.271
Practice setting
THC	−0.35 (1.39)	0.804	0.33 (0.85)	0.702	0.21 (0.34)	0.549	0.88 (0.90)	0.332
CHC	0.00	0.804	0.00	0.702	0.00	0.549	0.00	0.332
Average monthly income
< 2500	−1.59 (1.83)	0.387	0.06 (1.12)	0.957	−0.68 (0.45)	0.137	0.97 (1.19)	0.414
2500~	−1.03 (1.63)	0.526	−0.12 (0.99)	0.9	−0.42 (0.4)	0.3	0.49 (1.06)	0.643
3500~	0.00		0.00		0.00		0.00
Has management responsibility
Yes	1.08 (1.40)	0.441	−0.65 (0.85)	0.446	0.49 (0.35)	0.158	0.06 (0.91)	0.948
No	0.00		0.00	0.446	0.00	0.158	0.00	0.948
Workplace violence
No	−6.36 (1.26)	< 0.001	−5.3 (0.77)	< 0.001	−1.59 (0.31)	< 0.001	−0.53 (0.82)	0.519
Yes	0.00	< 0.001	0.00	< 0.001	0.00	< 0.001	0.00	0.519

Abbreviations: CHC Community health center, DP Depersonalization, EE Emotion exhaustion, PA Personal accomplishment, THC Township health center
^aGPs who have acquired associate degree or vocational diploma. An associate degree required 3 years of education in college after graduation from senior middle school (grade year 10 to year 12), or 5 years of education in college after graduation from junior middle school (grade year 7 to year 9). A vocational diploma requires 2 years of education in vocational schools after graduation from senior middle school, or 3 years of education in vocational schools after graduation from junior middle school
^bWages and welfares of GPs would be paid by the Chinese government public health services expenditure. GPs were unable to be freely fired off by health institutions
^cGPs were with junior or without any technical title
^dGPs were with middle or senior professional title
Significant values (P < 0.05) are presented in bold

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