Table 1 Characteristics of Respondents Overall and Based on Burnout

Age group, year

0.949

 < 45

41 (82.0%)

53 (81.5%)

94 (81.7%)

 ≥ 45

9 (18.0%)

12 (18.5%)

21 (18.3%)

Gender

0.162

 Female

38 (76.0%)

56 (86.2%)

94 (81.7%)

 Male

12 (24.0%)

9 (13.8%)

21 (18.3%)

Marital status

0.947

 Married

22 (44.0%)

29 (44.6%)

51 (44.3%)

 Single or divorced

28 (56.0%)

36 (55.4%)

64 (55.7%)

Children

13 (26.0%)

25 (38.5%)

38 (33.0%)

0.159

Smoking

9 (18.0%)

9 (13.8%)

18 (15.7%)

0.543

Alcohol

0.517

 None

31 (62.0%)

33 (51.5%)

64 (56.1%)

 Regular (once per week or more)

6 (12.0%)

11 (17.2%)

17 (14.9%)

 Non-regular

13 (26.0%)

20 (31.3%)

33 (28.9%)

Primary position

0.612

 Hospital pharmacist

30 (60.0%)

42 (64.6%)

72 (62.6%)

 Clinical pharmacist

20 (40.0%)

23 (35.4%)

43 (37.4%)

Employment type

0.252

 Full time

49 (98.0%)

65 (100%)

114 (99.1%)

 Part time

1 (2.0%)

0 (0%)

1 (0.9%)

Years practiced as a licensed pharmacist

0.420

 ≤ 5

27 (55.1%)

28 (43.8%)

55 (48.7%)

 6–20

15 (30.6%)

27 (42.2%)

42 (37.2%)

 > 20

7 (14.3%)

9 (14.1%)

16 (14.2%

Years worked in same hospital

0.454

 ≤ 2

22 (44.0%)

21 (32.3%)

43 (37.4%)

 2–5

10 (20.0%)

16 (24.6%)

26 (22.6%)

 6–15

11 (22.0%)

21 (32.3%)

32 (27.8%)

 ≥ 16

7 (14.0%)

7 (10.8%)

14 (12.2%)

Times changed job

0.980

 0

20 (40.0%)

25 (39.1%)

45 (39.5%)

 1

13 (26.0%)

15 (23.4%)

28 (24.6%)

 2

9 (18.0%)

13 (20.3%)

22 (19.3%)

 ≥ 3

8 (16.0%)

11 (17.2%)

19 (16.7%)

Highest pharmacy degree

0.036

 B.S.

19 (38.8%)

15 (23.4%)

34 (30.1%)

 Pharm.D. +/- PGY-1

22 (44.9%)

44 (68.8%)

66 (58.4%)

 Other^a

8 (16.3%)

5 (7.8%)

13 (11.5%)

BPS certification

0.586

 Yes

6 (12.2%)

10 (15.9%)

16 (14.3%)

 No

43 (87.8%)

53 (84.1%)

96 (85.7%)

School of pharmacy

0.252

 American

32 (68.1%)

34 (53.1%)

66 (59.5%)

 Non-American

14 (29.8%)

29 (45.3%)

43 (38.7%)

 Abroad

1 (2.1%)

1 (1.6%)

2 (1.8%)

Hours worked per week

0.385

 ≤ 40

16 (32.7%)

26 (40.6%)

42 (37.2%)

 > 40

33 (67.3%)

38 (59.4%)

71 (62.8%)

Average weekends worked per year

0.878

 0

8 (16.7%)

11 (17.5%)

19 (17.1%)

 1–23

19 (39.6%)

22 (34.9%)

41 (36.9%)

 ≥ 24

21 (43.8%)

30 (47.6%)

51 (45.9%)

Average days on call per month

0.332

 0

17 (36.2%)

33 (52.4%)

50 (45.5%)

 1–2

11 (23.4%)

8 (12.7%)

19 (17.3%)

 3–5

6 (12.8%)

4 (6.3%)

10 (9.1%)

 6–10

4 (8.5%)

6 (9.5%)

10 (9.1%)

 > 10

9 (19.1%)

12 (19.0%)

21 (19.1%)

Hours worked weekly from home

0.632

 0

19 (40.4%)

31 (48.4%)

50 (45.0%)

 1–5

21 (44.7%)

23 (35.9%)

44 (39.6%)

 > 6

7 (14.9%)

10 (15.6%)

17 (15.3%)

Social support

0.356

 None

16 (32.0%)

17 (26.2%)

33 (28.7%)

 Family

28 (56.0%)

44 (67.7%)

72 (62.6%)

 Non-family

6 (12.0%)

4 (6.2%)

10 (8.7%)

Practice setting

 Teaching hospital

35 (70.0%)

40 (62.5%)

75 (65.8%)

0.402

 Private hospital

43 (86.0%)

54 (84.4%)

97 (85.1%)

0.809

Location

0.536

 Beirut

31 (62.0%)

36 (56.3%)

67 (58.8%)

 Mount Lebanon

19 (38.0%)

28 (43.8%)

47 (41.2%)

Number of beds

0.562

 < 50

2 (4.1%)

6 (9.2%)

8 (7.0%)

 50–99

8 (16.3%)

12 (18.5%)

20 (17.5%)

 100–199

21 (42.9%)

21 (32.3%)

42 (36.8%)

 ≥ 200

18 (36.7%)

26 (40.0%)

44 (38.6%)

Mean daily patient workload

0.712

 1–30

14 (31.8%)

19 (29.2%)

33 (30.3%)

 31–60

19 (43.2%)

25 (38.5%)

44 (40.4%)

 ≥ 61

11 (25.0%)

21 (32.3%)

32 (29.4%)

Mean daily number of medication orders verified

0.689

 None

1 (2.3%)

2 (3.4%)

3 (2.9%)

 ≤ 50

17 (38.6%)

16 (27.6%)

33 (32.4%)

 51 − 100

11 (25.0%)

16 (27.6%)

27 (26.5%)

 > 100

15 (34.1%)

24 (41.4%)

39 (38.2%)

Daily duties

 Order verification

47 (94.0%)

62 (96.9%)

109 (95.6%)

0.652

 Pharmacy committee involvement

30 (60.0%)

39 (62.9%)

69 (61.6%)

0.753

 Medical staff committee involvement

25 (50.0%)

34 (53.1%)

59 (51.8%)

0.740

 Residency precepting

11 (22.0%)

14 (22.2%)

25 (22.1%)

0.977

 Student pharmacist precepting

28 (56.0%)

35 (55.6%)

63 (55.8%)

0.962

 Student training

36 (72.0%)

34 (54.0%)

70 (61.9%)

0.050

 Directing/coordinating a residency program

5 (10.0%)

4 (6.3%)

9 (8.0%)

0.477

 Research and publication

19 (38.0%)

25 (39.7%)

44 (38.9%)

0.855

 Medication reconciliation

40 (80.0%)

55 (87.3%)

95 (84.1%)

0.292

 Formal pharmacist consultation

24 (49.0%)

38 (60.3%)

62 (55.4%)

0.231

 Nutrition support consultation

8 (6.3%)

15 (23.8%)

23 (20.5%)

0.331

 Didactic lecturing

26 (55.3%)

30 (48.4%)

56 (51.4%)

0.473

 Procurement of medications

20 (40.0%)

35 (55.6%)

55 (48.7%)

0.100

 Medication dispensing

43 (86.0%)

55 (87.3%)

98 (86.7%)

0.839

 Sterile compounding

25 (50.0%)

24 (38.1%)

49 (43.4%)

0.205

 Leadership role in formulary management

27 (54.0%)

36 (57.1%)

63 (55.8%)

0.738

 Antibiotic stewardship involvement

38 (77.6%)

41 (66.1%)

79 (71.2%)

0.187

 Interdisciplinary patient rounds

22 (44.0%)

29 (46.0%)

51 (45.1%)

0.829

 Patient counseling

23 (46.0%)

27 (42.9%)

50 (44.2%)

0.738