OUTLINE

 Introduction

 Epidemiology

 Features

 Etiology

 Consequences

 Interventions

 Conclusion

 References

INTRODUCTION

 Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders. It exists on a complex continuum

 Burnout is perhaps somewhere along this spectrum

The Mental Health Continuum

 The term “Burnout” was first introduced by Freudenberger, a clinical psychologist who used it to describe the physical and emotional Exhaustion he observed in employees of healthcare facilities.

 Burnout is a syndrome of depersonalization, exhaustion, low personal accomplishment.

 Results from chronic imbalance between job demands and work resources.

 Causes decreased effectiveness at work and impaired personal and social functioning.

 Not an individual mental health diagnosis, but included in ICD-11 as factors that affect health.