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Table 2 Differences in burnout and work-life balance between specialists in internal medicine working at a hospital vs. a practice (N = 183)

From: Comparing burnout and work-life balance among specialists in internal medicine: the role of inpatient vs. outpatient workplace

 

Hospital (N = 139)

Practice (N = 44)

Significance

Burnout

 Exhaustion

2.7 (1.3)

2.0 (1.4)

P = 0.004

 Cynicism

1.8 (1.3)

1.0 (0.9)

p ≤ 0.001

 Professional efficacy

5.0 (0.8)

5.6 (0.5)

p ≤ 0.001

 Burnout scorea

1.9 (1.0)

1.2 (0.8)

p ≤ 0.001

Work-life balance

3.1 (1.1)

4.0 (1.2)

p ≤ 0.001

  1. The significance of mean differences was analyzed using independent t-tests
  2. aComputation of the total burnout score according to Kalimo et al. (2003)
  3. Note: *p ≤ 0.05; +**p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001