In Krasnoyarsk, doctors with an experience of more than 15 years show a low level of empathy

In Krasnoyarsk, doctors with high experience show a lower level of empathy than their young colleagues. Such results were shown by work on the prevention of professional burnout in hospital No. 20, the Ministry of Health said. The program is a joint project of the Ministry of Health of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Psychological Center “Height”.

Doctors voluntarily underwent an anonymous survey and survey. 80 doctors took part in it, including the acting The chief physician, and then, on the basis of these data, psychologists have compiled a training program. They are aimed at working with the value sphere of doctors, the development of stress resistance, empathy, attention. Also, doctors were offered individual and group consultations. The practical part of the program includes 4 trainings that will be held until the end of summer.

The head of the clinic of evidence -based psychotherapy “Height”, clinical psychologist Olga Dolganina noted that the level of burnout among doctors is quite high. According to the survey, it turned out that women are faster than their male colleagues. Doctors working for less than 5 years showed a lower level of stress resistance, but a higher level of compassion, and those who treat people for more than 15 years showed a lower level of empathy.

“Based on these data, we can form a program of measures that will be useful to doctors, we understand where we need to direct our attention further in order to get the result – to increase the level of self -suffering of a doctor, compassion for ourselves, because only helping yourself, you can help others,” Olga Dolganina shared.

Psychologists have developed a program with a differentiated approach and suggested repeating the assessment of the psychological state of doctors in 3 months and six months.

The leadership of the hospital considers the program unconditionally useful.
“It helps to establish closer cooperation between the doctor and the patient, to establish a more solid relationship in the team, between doctors. And this allows you to significantly improve the quality of medical care. The plans are to include not only doctors, but also senior nurses in the program, ”the acting chief physician Evgeny Kononov.

Work on the prevention of professional burnout in the 20th hospital continues. Already there are those who want to take part in the program from other healthcare institutions and undergo primary testing.