Burnout in medical and performance professionals working in elite football in the United Kingdom: a pilot study.

Science & medicine in football Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI:10.1080/24733938.2025.2476486

Daniela Mifsud, Nic Acampora, Neel Rao, Andrew Shafik, Sean Carmody, Avinash Chandran

{"title":"Burnout in medical and performance professionals working in elite football in the United Kingdom: a pilot study.","authors":"Daniela Mifsud, Nic Acampora, Neel Rao, Andrew Shafik, Sean Carmody, Avinash Chandran","doi":"10.1080/24733938.2025.2476486","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background: Despite the focus on the effect of burnout on athlete health and performance, understanding its impact on their support teams remains limited. Our primary aim was to investigate the prevalence of burnout amongst medical and performance professionals working in professional football in the UK.Methods: In this cross-sectional design study burnout risk was assessed using the Burnout Assessment Tool-23 (BAT-23).Results: A total of 162 participants completed the questionnaire. The overall average burnout score indicated a low risk of burnout; however, half (42%) of participants had individual burnout scores indicative of being at risk or very high risk of burnout. There was no statistically significant relationship between profession and burnout risk. There was also no statistically significant relationship between burnout risk and number of years working in professional football.Conclusion: This study, conducted during pre-season, suggests that medical and performance professionals working in professional football in the UK are not at risk of burnout. Measures to continue to safeguard practitioners against the effects of burnout are proposed.","PeriodicalId":74767,"journal":{"name":"Science & medicine in football","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Science & medicine in football","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24733938.2025.2476486","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Background: Despite the focus on the effect of burnout on athlete health and performance, understanding its impact on their support teams remains limited. Our primary aim was to investigate the prevalence of burnout amongst medical and performance professionals working in professional football in the UK.

Methods: In this cross-sectional design study burnout risk was assessed using the Burnout Assessment Tool-23 (BAT-23).

Results: A total of 162 participants completed the questionnaire. The overall average burnout score indicated a low risk of burnout; however, half (42%) of participants had individual burnout scores indicative of being at risk or very high risk of burnout. There was no statistically significant relationship between profession and burnout risk. There was also no statistically significant relationship between burnout risk and number of years working in professional football.

Conclusion: This study, conducted during pre-season, suggests that medical and performance professionals working in professional football in the UK are not at risk of burnout. Measures to continue to safeguard practitioners against the effects of burnout are proposed.

查看原文本刊更多论文

在英国精英足球工作的医疗和表演专业人员的职业倦怠：一项试点研究。

背景：尽管关注倦怠对运动员健康和表现的影响，但了解其对他们的支持团队的影响仍然有限。我们的主要目的是调查在英国职业足球工作的医疗和表演专业人员中职业倦怠的患病率。方法：在本横断面设计研究中，使用职业倦怠评估工具-23 （BAT-23）评估职业倦怠风险。结果：共162人完成问卷调查。总体平均倦怠得分显示倦怠风险较低；然而，有一半（42%）的参与者的个人倦怠得分表明他们有倦怠风险或非常高的风险。职业与职业倦怠风险无显著相关。职业足球运动员职业倦怠风险与工作年限之间也无统计学意义。结论：这项在季前赛期间进行的研究表明，在英国职业足球中工作的医疗和表演专业人员没有倦怠的风险。建议采取措施继续保护从业人员免受职业倦怠的影响。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Science & medicine in football

自引率

0.00%

发文量