Burnout syndrome comparative study in doctors, psychologists, and law enforcement officers during the full-scale invasion in Ukraine

Abstract

The article deals with theoretical and practical aspects of burnout syndrome manifestation peculiarities in doctors, psycholo-gists, and law enforcement officers during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and aims to provide its analysis and prevention. The empirical study, conducted in 2023–2024, involved 568 people, including 264 psychologists, 148 general practition-ers-family physicians, and 156 law enforcement unit officers from the Odesa region. The study used the author’s question-naire for the burnout syndrome characteristics, as well as standardized psychodiagnostic techniques. More than a third of the surveyed showed various signs of emotional, physical, and mental burnout. Decreased physical vitality was more typical for doctors, loss of meaning in life and professional activity, regular physical ailments, frequent illnesses, and chronic dis-ease exacerbation were more common for law enforcement officers. A third of psychologists have a partial or complete loss of professional motivation, a decreased sense of competence and work value, dissatisfaction with themselves, and negative self-perception in the professional sphere. The obtained data were taken as a basis for the development of the training pro-gram to prevent and correct the burnout syndrome manifestations and develop and improve their stress resistance and toler-ance skills, especially during today’s war conditions.