Evaluation of Symptom Distress by Edmonton Symptom Assessment System and Maslach Burnout Inventory-Medical Personnel among Medical Personnel under the Epidemic of COVID-19

摘要

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has spread worldwide for over one year. In the affected countries, clinicians have faced heavy workload conditions and high risk of infection.1–4 Nowadays, COVID-19 has been under better control but clinicians working with their routine patients still need to use caution in their daily practice. Therefore, the working conditions are more complex than before the COVID-19 surge. Both physical and psychological distress of clinicians should be monitored, but there are no a simple assessment tools to measure practitioner distress. We conducted a survey to explore and compare symptom distress through the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS)5 and burnout frequency through the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Medical Personnel (MBI) among clinicians working on the front lines (FL) of COVID-19 and their colleagues practicing in their usual wards (UWs).