["Burnout"--is it a disease or rather a consequence of (work-) stress?]
1Klinik Innere Medizin, Schwerpunkt Pneumologie, Intensiv- und Schlafmedizin, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
Abstract:
Burnout is a work related health impairment comprising three dimensions: emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and reduced personal accomplishment. Not least because of the highly frequented term "burnout" within the German speaking area, there is a rising interest in the connection of work related stress and psychological and somatic complaints. Burnout is not a disease in the proper sense but a physiological construct. Coherence between work related stress and the development of psychological and somatic diseases has been proven by many studies. However burnout requires a differential diagnostic categorisation. Therapeutic procedures and prevention measures should be initiated based on the forms and categorisation of work related stress.
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