Healthcare - Job Burnout | Study

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Job Burnout
It is critical to understand that stress and anxiety has affected the employees across
various professions and there is an increased ratio of work-life imbalance amongst the
employees from different field which has affected the physical and mental health of people,
across the country. Work related stress leads to job related burnout which causes emotional
exhaustion leading to physical and mental exhaustion. This in turn leads to disruption of
psychological safety, more chances of disruptive behavior and increasing chances of
depression with decreasing work performances. It is very important to note that when the
stress and the anxiety is not addressed properly in the workplace and at the home, by the use
and application of the resources, that can cause a lot of complexities in the subject such as
burnout. Burnout causes emotional exhaustion, physical exhaustion and can lead to
frustration, social isolation, loss of resilience and decreased sense of connectedness to the
surroundings. It is to be importantly considered that irritability, anger and rigidity in the
cognition of the person is also enhanced due to burnout. The responses to burnout are many
and firstly, it starts from the responses to presenting stress. It is important to be noted that
only the cognitive and behavioral parameters are affected in relation to the job or work
related burnout but there are most complex issues that underlines the presentations of job
burnout. The neurobiological basis of burnout related behavior is critical to be understood
and studied intricately in order to understand the neuropsychology involved with the
causation and consequence of work-related stress and job burnout. Many reports has focused
on the neurobiology of emotional pain, the functional deterioration of the frontal lobe, the
parts of brain such as prefrontal cortex and its role in acute job related stress, the role and
action of limbic system and amygdala under acute stress conditions in work life. Under
tremendous stresses, the neurobiology of the brain changes causing an imbalance in
excitatory and inhibitory functions of neuro-hormones.

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Methodology
A search was performed across the electronic database such as PubMed, CINAHL,
and SCIENCEDIRECT in order to find the right scholarly articles which has studied and
researched the role of neurobiology in job burnout situations.
Inclusion criteria
a. Only peer reviewed articles were chosen
b. Articles published in English journals
c. Articles that are not more than 5 years old
Exclusion criteria
a. articles which are not peer-reviewed
b. Articles not published in English journals
c. Articles that are more than 5 years old

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Systematic review