Medizinische Universität Graz - Research portal
Selected Publication:
SHR Neuro Cancer Cardio Lipid Metab Microb
Kapfhammer, HP.
Burnout : illness or symptom?].
INTERNIST. 2012; 53(11): 1284- 1286.
Doi: 10.1007/s00108-012-3067-9
Web of Science
PubMed
FullText
FullText_MUG
- Leading authors Med Uni Graz
- Kapfhammer Hans-Peter
- Altmetrics:
- Dimensions Citations:
- Plum Analytics:
- Scite (citation analytics):
- Abstract:
- Burnout is primarily conceptualized by work psychology. It describes symptoms resulting from a long-standing, finally derailing adjustment to work-related stressors. Burnout is not a proper diagnosis according to traditional classification systems. However, ICD-10 considers burnout as a significant factor representing major personal problems that have impact on health status and illness behaviour. Burnout may be considered either as a transitional or persisting adjustment reaction to work-related stress, a condition of increased risk regarding to serious mental illnesses and physical diseases, or an integral syndrome of these various conditions. The core symptom of exhaustion or persisting tiredness must be carefully assessed in respect of depressive, anxiety and somatoform disorders from the perspective of psychiatric differential diagnosis. In most cases of a serious burnout the diagnosis of major depression can be established and should lead to proper psychotherapeutic and/or pharmacological treatments. Any aetiopathogenetic evaluation may be favourably done within a multifactorial biopsychosocial model. Consequences for medical care will be described.
- Find related publications in this database (using NLM MeSH Indexing)
- Burnout, Professional - diagnosis
- Depression - diagnosis
- Diagnosis, Differential -
- Humans -
- Internal Medicine - trends
- Stress, Psychological - diagnosis
- Find related publications in this database (Keywords)
- Burnout
- Depressive disorder
- Anxiety disorder
- Somatoform disorder
- Work-related stress