Every fifth Czech suffer from occupational burnout: experts
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PRAGUE, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Every fifth Czech suffers from occupational burnout, and top managers, doctors, healthcare workers, teachers, police officers and judges are the most endangered groups, said experts at a press conference held by the Department of Psychiatry of the First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University here on Tuesday.
Occupational burnout is a reaction to long-term stress, caused mainly by weariness and other factors. Experts at the Department of Psychiatry have been watching the syndrome since 2015. "Intensive symptoms of the burnout syndrome can be seen in about 20 percent of the population. Compared with the world, this is somewhere in the middle," clinical psychologist Radek Ptacek commented.
Ptacek focuses on the mental health of professionals in several international studies. Research studies have shown that the most vulnerable groups are chief executives and managers with responsibility for a larger company, followed by managers who work for medium or small-sized companies, he said. The risk is lowest among the self-employed, and workers in fisheries and agriculture. Ptacek said that occupational burnout is most common in the Czech Republic's northeastern region, with fewer cases registered in the country's southwestern part.
According to a survey conducted in 2018, more than half of the 3,500 teachers queried were considered to be at risk of burnout, and about 65 percent were actually endangered. About a fifth of the teachers exhibited serious symptoms. Burnout symptoms were felt by 12 percent of the 1,100 doctors covered by the survey, said Jiri Raboch, head of the university's Department of Psychiatry. Some 22 percent of them used psychoactive drugs.
Raboch said that serious symptoms of depression occurred among 7 percent of the Czech population. Nine percent admitted to thinking about committing suicide occasionally, one percent seriously.
About 11 percent of Czechs now use psychoactive drugs, whose consumption has increased significantly over the last 15 years. Enditem
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