Research Article

Open Access to General Practice Was Associated with Burnout among General Practitioners

Table 1

Characteristics of the participating 376 GPs. Mean age was 51.8 ( ), mean weekly hours of work were 44.2 ( ), and mean years in profession were 14.9 ( ).

%

Gender
 Men22861.0
 Women14639.0
Marital status
 Married34593.0
 Single267.0
Age
 <455815.6
 45–498623.1
 50–548121.7
 55–5910227.4
 >594612.3
Practice organisation
 Solo practice9225.3
 Group practice328.8
 Shared practice9325.6
 Partnership practice14640.2
Open access (at least 30 minutes)
 Yes, every day318.3
 Yes, but less than every day225.9
 No32185.8
Number of patients per GP
13859625.9
 1385–178518148.8
 >17859425.3
Number of consultations per GP in 2003
 <77209625.9
 7720–10.770 18349.3
 >107709224.8
CME group
 Member of a CME and a supervision group7018.7
 Being a member of either a CME or supervision group27473.3
 Neither a member of a CME nor of a supervision group308.0
CME days spent in 2 years on GP-relevant activities
 0–5 days 349.3
 6–9 days6016.4
 10–17 days19051.8
 >17 days8322.6
Job satisfaction (Warr-Cook-Wall)
 >6.07720.5
 5.6–6.011229.8
 5.1–5.510126.9
 1.0–5.08622.9
Burnout (Maslach score)
 No28075.9
 Yes (EE > 26 and/or DP > 9)8924.1
Weekly working hours
 <375214.7
 37–419025.4
 42–469526.8
 47–516618.6
 >515214.7
Minutes typically used per consultation
 ≥13 min29478.8
 <13 min7921.2