Feel the Burn, Heal the Burn: Job Crafting and Burnout Among Occupational Therapy Professionals.
Brittany Lynner, Rosalyn Stoa, Gwenith Fisher and 2 others
PMID 39629699WHAT IT FOUND
In 400 US occupational therapy professionals, workload was most strongly linked to personal and work-related burnout.
Community settings had lower work-related burnout than hospital, skilled nursing, or pediatrics. Job crafting was linked to less burnout, but this survey cannot prove it reduces burnout.
Key findings
01Workload was the strongest predictor of personal and work-related burnout, with relative weights of 21% and 19%.
02Community occupational therapists reported lower work-related burnout than those in hospital acute inpatient rehab, long-term care or skilled nursing facilities, and pediatrics.
03Job crafting was positively related to nearly all job resources and negatively related to personal, work-related, and client-related burnout.
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What it does not show
This was a cross-sectional survey, so it cannot show that job demands, job crafting, or resources caused burnout. Participants were recruited by convenience and snowball sampling, and the response rate cannot be calculated because the number who received the survey is unknown. The sample was limited to the United States and may not represent all specialties or work settings. All data were self-reported, and missing data were up to 37.3% on some items, partly because self-employed participants did not answer questions that did not apply to them. The final sample of 400 was much smaller than the 652 who responded, so exclusions could affect generalizability. Some scale items were dropped because of poor factor loading.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read job crafting as a proven burnout treatment. This survey found job crafting was negatively related to burnout, but the design was cross-sectional and self-reported, so it cannot show that crafting caused lower burnout.