Professional burnout of medical workers in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic as a risk factor for mental health

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The paper presents an analysis of the literature on the problem of professional burnout syndrome in medical workers, presented in the Scientific Electronic Library (eLibrary), as well as in the English-language text database of medical and biological publications PubMed.

The novel coronavirus infection pandemic is associated with many factors contributing to formation and development of professional burnout in medical workers. The risk factors are: high workload, lack of PPE, threat and risk of contracting a new coronavirus infection, social isolation, insufficiency (at the first stage) of accumulated knowledge about the new little-studied disease.

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Olga V. Sazonova

Samara State Medical University

Email: o.v.sazonova@samsmu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4130-492X

PhD, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Food Hygiene with the Course of Hygiene of Children and Adolescents

Russian Federation, Samara

Mikhail Yu. Gavryushin

Samara State Medical University

Email: m.yu.gavryushin@samsmu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0897-7700

PhD, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Food Hygiene with the Course of Hygiene of Children and Adolescents

Russian Federation, Samara

Nataliya Yu. Kuvshinova

Samara State Medical University

Email: n.yu.kuvshinova@samsmu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0780-7336

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pedagogy, Psychology and Psycholinguistics

Russian Federation, Samara

Natalia A. Ostryakova

Samara State Medical University

Email: kosm-90@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5459-691X

Resident of the Department of Occupational Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology n.a. Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation Professor V.V. Kosarev

Russian Federation, Samara

Sergey A. Babanov

Samara State Medical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: s.a.babanov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1667-737X

PhD, Professor, Head of the Department of Occupational Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology n.a. Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation Professor V.V. Kosarev

Russian Federation, Samara

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