STRESS AND EMOTIONAL BURNOUT OF DOCTORS IN WAR CONDITIONS

Abstract

In this article described the problem of emotional/professional burnout among medical workers. Provided theoretical information about the sources of burnout, why medical workers are more vulnerable to burnout, how level of empathy affected this problem and why despite of fact theat empathy is a source of burnout, trying to cut off level of empathy is only make burnout stronger. Described to what physiological and psychosomatic consequences it can lead to, as well as about the impact on professional activity. Considered are the factors that increase burnout for medical workers in wartime condi- tions (especially in conditions of violations of international agreements by terrorist-russia), both for medical workers in the rear regions and for those close to the front line. Collected together various studies on the issue of burnout from various medical professions in different regions of Ukraine in recent years (most of the studies start from 2015, there is one from 2012) and the analyze from authors of these studies the conditions what affecting burnout and coping-strategies against burnout and their positive or negative impact, including «method» of drown problem in alcohol and how it’s only increase burnout not only for one person but also drug in problems all medical collective. Shows how condition of war change level of burnout and derived conditions (level of agresive, depresssion) and coping-strategy that better works in war time. Presented techniques for decreasing impact of burnout, both at the personal and collective levels. Although most of these methods are suitable only for medical workers living in safer rear regions, there are also those that were created for military medics and whose effectiveness was tested by American military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan.