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Occupational burnout and empathy influence blood pressure control in primary care physicians

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Primary Care, May 2017
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Title
Occupational burnout and empathy influence blood pressure control in primary care physicians
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BMC Primary Care, May 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12875-017-0634-0
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Oriol Yuguero, Josep Ramon Marsal, Montserrat Esquerda, Jorge Soler-González

Abstract

Good physician-patient communication can favor the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits, which is essential in high blood pressure (BP) management. More empathic physicians tend to have lower burnout and better communication skills. We analyzed the association between burnout and empathy among primary care physicians and nurses and investigated the influence on BP control performance. Descriptive study conducted in 2014 investigating burnout and empathy levels in 267 primary care physicians and nurses and BP control data for 301,657 patients under their care. We administered the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy and defined good BP control as a systolic BP <130 mmHg. Low burnout and high empathy were observed in 58.8% and 33.7% of practitioners, respectively. Burnout and empathy were significantly negatively associated (p < 0.009). Practitioners with high empathy and low burnout had significantly better BP control and performance than those with low empathy and high burnout (p < 0.05). Low burnout and high empathy were significantly associated with improved BP control and performance, possibly in relation to better physician/nurse-patient communication.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 124 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 20 16%
Student > Master 17 14%
Researcher 14 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 6%
Other 19 15%
Unknown 38 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 32 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 10%
Social Sciences 7 6%
Psychology 5 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 3%
Other 20 16%
Unknown 43 35%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 March 2018.
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#2,542,721
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#45,811
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#6
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