@article{ref1,
title="The association between adverse childhood experiences and burnout in a regional sample of physicians",
journal="Academic psychiatry",
year="2021",
author="Parish, Michelle Burke and Wetzel, Aileen E. and Misquitta, Rajiv and Coate, Lindsay and Yellowlees, Peter",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Little research has occurred in physicians on the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their potential correlation with burnout. The  authors hypothesized that there would be a relationship between burnout levels and  ACE scores, with physicians reporting more burnout being likely to have higher ACE  scores. <br><br>METHODS: Three hundred physicians completed the ten-question ACE scale and  two burnout scales, the Mini-Z, and two items from the Maslach Burnout Inventory. <br><br>RESULTS: One hundred and thirty eight (46%) of the physicians were positive on one  or the other of the two burnout measures, and 49% of the respondents were positive  for at least one ACE, while 9% were positive for four or more ACEs. The most common  ACEs reported by the group were having a family member being depressed, being  mentally ill, or attempting suicide (22%). The burnout measures correlated strongly  with each other (r = 0.68, p <.001), and separate logistic regression models  revealed that the physicians with an ACE score of 4 or more had more than two and  half times the risk of burnout on either burnout scale measured. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: In  this group of physicians, almost half reported experiencing ACEs, and half reported  symptoms of burnout. The research hypothesis, which physicians reporting more  burnout would be more likely to have higher ACE scores, was supported. It is  possible that ACEs are a vulnerability factor in physicians for the development of  burnout. This possibility and potential protective factors should be further  studied.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1042-9670",
doi="10.1007/s40596-020-01381-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40596-020-01381-z"
}