The pandemic of the new coronavirus infection SARS-CoV2 and the burnout syndrome in medical workers

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a serious psychological impact on health care workers. There is an operational restructuring of medical institutions, working conditions almost correspond to the emergency situation. Every day, medical workers receive a huge amount of new information in the form of orders and methodological recommendations. This creates an additional load in the form of continuous «information noise». The problem of professional burnout of doctors was acute even before the COVID-19 pandemic. According to numerous studies in different countries, almost half of doctors have high rates of professional burnout, which is twice as high as the same indicators in the population engaged in other areas of professional activity.