Coping With Staff Burnout and Work-Related Posttraumatic Stress in Intensive Care.

Objectives: To examine the associations with symptoms of 1) burnout and 2) work-related posttraumatic stress, in adult and pediatric intensive care staff, focusing on the particular contributions of resilience and coping strategies. Design: Point prevalence cross-sectional study. Setting: Three adult ICUs and four PICUs. Subjects: Three hundred seventy-seven ICU staff. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: Brief Resilience Scale, abbreviated Maslach Burnout Inventory, Trauma Screening Questionnaire, and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Prevalence of burnout (defined as high emotional exhaustion or high depersonalization) was 37%. Prevalence of clinically significant posttraumatic stress symptoms was 13%. There was a degree of overlap between burnout and other measures of distress, most notably for anxiety (odds ratio, 10.56; 95% CI, 4.12-27.02; p

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