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Table 5 The relationship of burnout to compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress, personal meaning in patient care and intolerance of uncertainty in Australian GP registrars

From: A survey of resilience, burnout, and tolerance of uncertainty in Australian general practice registrars

 

Low burnout (n = 109) Mean (SD)

High burnout (n = 18) Mean (SD)

p value

ProQOL

   

Compassion satisfaction

36.8 (4.4)

33.9 (5.9)

0.63

Secondary traumatic stress

20.8 (4.0)

24.2 (4.6)

0.002*

Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale -12

   

Prospective anxiety

19.7 (4.6)

23.3 (6.5)

0.005 *

Inhibitory anxiety

10.5 (3.8)

13.3 (4.3)

0.005 *

Total

30.2 (7.2)

36.6 (9.8)

0.001 *

Resilience Scale -14

75.8 (12.5)

67.7 (10.0)

0.010 *

Personal meaning in patient care

16.8 (3.2)

14.7 (3.3)

0.014 *

Physician response to uncertainty scale

   

Anxiety due to uncertainty

18.8 (5.0)

21.7 (4.3)

0.02 *

Concern about bad outcomes

11.5 (3.4)

13.0 (4.0)

0.10

Reluctance to disclose uncertainty to patients

13.6 (3.8)

15.7 (3.3)

0.03*

Reluctance to disclose uncertainty to physicians

4.0 (1.9)

4.5 (2.1)

0.30

  1. *statistically significant result.