YSK: Understanding the work burnout experience, treatment and preventions

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Why YSK: It's easy to burnout at work, and it's hard to treat and heal from it.

Scroll to "Treatment and prevention" section in the article.

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Unfortunately, there is very little research that has evaluated the efficacy of any of these approaches in reducing the risk of burnout. Especially rare are studies modeled even loosely on randomized control trials. More common are studies with a single intervention group of volunteer participants for whom there are rarely follow‐up assessments after treatment has ended78. It is not yet clear whether burnout is generally susceptible to a range of strategies or whether it is crucial to fit the strategy to the specific context of a workplace to be effective.

OP why would you do this to us 😭

This study is 7 years old. There have been many studies on burnout since COVID, especially regarding the healthcare workers. Of course we could always use more - and their point about doing more randomized, controlled trials stands. Here's an example of a randomized trial where a mindfulness program was used to treat burnout among medical interns.

Burnout is hard to address because it's a systemic work issue, but a lot of research focuses on what an individual worker can do to alleviate their symptoms rather than what their workplace can do to be better. We need both!