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Still Burned Out, Even After Lengthy Treatment

May 3, 2012

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One-third of men and women seeking help for stress-related exhaustion who also have symptoms of depression and anxiety still feel “burned out” after 18 months of treatment. Typically, women have a higher prevalence of burnout than men, but there was no sex difference regarding the level of burnout or symptoms of depression and anxiety in this report. Early detection of stress-related symptoms is important; those with a longer duration of symptoms took longer to recover.

RESULT: Course of mental symptoms in patients with stress-related exhaustion: Does sex or age make a difference?
BMC Psychiatry | Mar 12, 2012 (FREE FULL TEXT)

Burnout has been given very short shrift by medical science, note the authors of this systematic review in a German journal. Although it is frequently invoked as a syndrome in clinical discussions and publications, it does not appear in ICD-9 or DSM-IV, and there are no accepted, scientifically valid criteria or instruments for the diagnosis of burnout, they observe. There have been no controlled trials of any interventions. In the circumstances, they add, “burnout” should not be used as a basis for decisions about disability. However, the article (available in full text in English for free) does contain numerous descriptors and factors associated with the term in various publications.

RESULT: Burnout: a fashionable diagnosis
Deutsches Ärtzteblatt International (PubMed) | Nov 2, 2011 (FREE FULL TEXT)

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