Background: Seafaring is a demanding profession, often involving long periods of isolation in a confined environment with a multicultural crew and a heavy workload in an unpredictable workplace. These factors can contribute to increasing the risk of developing psychosocial risks, fatigue and burnout in seafarers. Burnout is considered to be a state of emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and professional inefficacy. Recent systematic reviews have examined the role of fatigue in samples of seafarers, but despite the potential impact on seafarers’ mental health and performance, burnout has not yet been systematically investigated. The aim of this systematic review is to examine, analyse and evaluate the quality of the literature on burnout in the maritime industry. 737 Method: According to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), we searched various databases (i.e. Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and PsycINFO) for articles on burnout and seafarers or shipping until May 2023. After removing duplicates, 1058 articles were screened. 31 articles were checked for suitability in full text. Eighteen were excluded for the following reasons: wrong result, foreign language, wrong population, wrong publication type, and wrong metrics. Thirteen full-text articles were included in the quality assessment. Only quantitative studies written in English and published in the form of journal articles dealing with seafarers and assessing burnout by collecting quantitative data were included in the review. The quality of the included studies was assessed using the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Quality Assessment tool for Observational Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies. Results & Conclusion: The analysis of the studies has not yet been completed, but the paper will be finalised by the conference date. This systematic review will be the first to provide a comprehensive overview of burnout syndrome in the maritime industry by listing all the evidence and examining the determinants and factors associated with burnout.
The Role of Burnout in Seafarers: A Systematic Review
Francesco Buscema
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;Lara Colombo;
2023-01-01
Abstract
Background: Seafaring is a demanding profession, often involving long periods of isolation in a confined environment with a multicultural crew and a heavy workload in an unpredictable workplace. These factors can contribute to increasing the risk of developing psychosocial risks, fatigue and burnout in seafarers. Burnout is considered to be a state of emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and professional inefficacy. Recent systematic reviews have examined the role of fatigue in samples of seafarers, but despite the potential impact on seafarers’ mental health and performance, burnout has not yet been systematically investigated. The aim of this systematic review is to examine, analyse and evaluate the quality of the literature on burnout in the maritime industry. 737 Method: According to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), we searched various databases (i.e. Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, and PsycINFO) for articles on burnout and seafarers or shipping until May 2023. After removing duplicates, 1058 articles were screened. 31 articles were checked for suitability in full text. Eighteen were excluded for the following reasons: wrong result, foreign language, wrong population, wrong publication type, and wrong metrics. Thirteen full-text articles were included in the quality assessment. Only quantitative studies written in English and published in the form of journal articles dealing with seafarers and assessing burnout by collecting quantitative data were included in the review. The quality of the included studies was assessed using the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Quality Assessment tool for Observational Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies. Results & Conclusion: The analysis of the studies has not yet been completed, but the paper will be finalised by the conference date. This systematic review will be the first to provide a comprehensive overview of burnout syndrome in the maritime industry by listing all the evidence and examining the determinants and factors associated with burnout.
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