The issue of occupational burnout and its selected predictors among Polish physiotherapists – cross sectional study

Justyna Anna Szefler-Derela; Andrzej Piotr Knapik; Krzysztof Jendrysik

doi:10.5114/phr.2025.154440

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Research paper

The issue of occupational burnout and its selected predictors among Polish physiotherapists – cross sectional study

Justyna Anna Szefler-Derela

¹

,

Andrzej Piotr Knapik

²

,

Krzysztof Jendrysik

³

Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Department of Adapted Physical Activity and Sport, Faculty of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Physiofeet. Physiotherapy for Children and Adolescents, Katowice, Poland

Physiotherapy Review, 2025, 29(3), 24-34

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/phr.2025.154440

Online publish date: 2025/09/25

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Background
Occupational burnout is a condition that affects medical professionals, including physiotherapists. It is caused by excessive mental and physical costs incurred by the work.

Aims
To study the problem of job burnout among physiotherapists and determine the determinants affecting the level of burnout. Material and methods: The study included 425 people (F=287; M=138) working as physiotherapists.

Age of the subjects
22-65 years (mean: 30.08; SD=6.11). The research tool was a survey questionnaire containing the author's questions and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) to determine the respondents' level of job burnout. Results: The medians of the MBI domains were low. Lowest for Depersonalization (F=4.16, M=5.75; p

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professional burnout, work, medical professions, physiotherapist, determinants of professional burnout

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The issue of occupational burnout and its selected predictors among Polish physiotherapists – cross sectional study

Justyna Anna Szefler-Derela 1 , Andrzej Piotr Knapik 2 , Krzysztof Jendrysik 3

professional burnout, work, medical professions, physiotherapist, determinants of professional burnout

Justyna Anna Szefler-Derela

¹

,

Andrzej Piotr Knapik

²

,

Krzysztof Jendrysik

³