TY  - JOUR
TI  - Assistant Physicians Knowledge and Attitudes about Defensive Medical Practices, Work-Related Stress and Burnout Levels
AB  - Introduction: Defensive medicine is the practice of physicians to use the unnecessary procedures for diagnosis and treatment in order to protect themselvesagainst medical malpractice cases, or to avoid taking the responsibility of high-risk medical practices which are likely to result in a malpractice case. Thepresent study was carried out to reveal the knowledge and attitudes of research assistants working in internal and surgical medical sciences at DicleUniversity Medical Faculty Hospital about the defensive medicine applications and the factors affecting work-related stress and burnout levels. Method:The sample of this descriptive-cross-sectional type of study was designed by proportional layer method. The questionnaire, which included thesociodemographic data form, the defensive medicine applications attitude scale and the maslach burnout ınventory, was applied to 200 physicians. Results:Of all the participants whose mean age was 29.4±3.0, 70.5%(n=141) were male, 56%(n=112) were married. The frequency of positive and negativedefensive medicine was found as 98%(n=196) and 92 % (n=184) respectively. The points of defensive medicine were significantly high in the males, thoseworking at surgical departments, those in the first two years of the specialist training in medicine, those the malpractice case opened about and smokers. Thelevel of work-related tension was significantly high in the ones working at surgical departments, ones who keep watch for eight times or more per month,those the malpractice case opened about, smokers and alcohol users. The average points which the physicians took from Maslach Burnout Inventory weredetermined as 31.57±11.67 for emotional exhaustion, 11.75±6.49 for desensitization and 29.46±7.72 for personal accomplishment. Conclusion: In ourstudy, it was concluded that most of the research assistants were not satisfied with the choice of profession and specialty, their knowledge of defensivemedicine concept was inadequate and their high burnout rates were found in all burnout dimensions. It was seen that the burnout levels of those who appliedmore to defensive medicine were higher.
AU  - yılmaz, ahmet
AU  - ASLANHAN, Hamza
AU  - TUNCAY, Suheyp
AU  - GÖCEN, Ömer
AU  - Celepkolu, Tahsin
AU  - DİRİCAN, Emre
DO  - 10.21763/tjfmpc.432454
PY  - 2018
JO  - Turkish Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
SN  - 1307-2048
SP  - 77
EP  - 87
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/343640
ER  -