I was pleased to present my research on burnout from the Middle East and North Africa, the MENA region, which was presented at the ASCO annual meeting 2024, the medical education and professional development track. We’ve demonstrated in that meta-analysis that the burnout trend has increased significantly after the COVID pandemic. Previously, it was reported at 48%, and we’ve noticed an increase of 28 percentage points after the COVID pandemic...
I was pleased to present my research on burnout from the Middle East and North Africa, the MENA region, which was presented at the ASCO annual meeting 2024, the medical education and professional development track. We’ve demonstrated in that meta-analysis that the burnout trend has increased significantly after the COVID pandemic. Previously, it was reported at 48%, and we’ve noticed an increase of 28 percentage points after the COVID pandemic. Burnout has three different subdomains, which are emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and low personal accomplishment. Both depersonalization and emotional exhaustion also increased significantly. Also, we explored the contributors to this increase or change in the trend over time, and we were able to identify certain predictors that included younger age, specifically professionals younger than 45 years old. Being medical oncologists also contributed to the increased risk of emotional exhaustion, as well as the post-COVID period itself. The main contributor to the increased burnout prevalence was the increase in the emotional exhaustion, which probably can be explained by the stress and the workforce strain during the COVID pandemic period. Also, we explored the use of single-item questions to identify professionals who might be at risk of developing burnout. And that question was about their desire to quit oncology. And interestingly, we found that professionals who answered either yes, sometimes, or rarely thought of quitting oncology were more likely to be burnt out. So that question has a high sensitivity and high positive predictive value, and it may help to rule in the professionals who might be burned out. Yet we were not able to ascertain the cause of the relationship.
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