Burnout among staff on specialized eating disorder units in Norway

Abstract

Plain English summary Healthcare providers’ wellbeing at work is important for their health and their satisfaction and performance at work well as quality of patient care. Patients with eating disorders are frequently referred to as a particularly challenging group to treat, and may therefore affect healthcare providers’ working with this patient group sense of wellbeing. The current study thus aimed to measure levels of burnout and its relationship with associated aspects, e.g. work environment, job satisfaction, emotional dissonance and eating disorder specific factors among healthcare providers working specifically with this patient group. The outcome of the study showed relatively low levels of burnout among participating healthcare providers. Factors associated with eating disorders strongly predicted burnout.

Keywords

• Eating disorders
• Burnout
• Healthcare providers
• Specialized eating disorder units
• Work environment
• Job satisfaction