Burnout and Engagement’s Relationship to Drug Abuse in Lawyers and Law Professionals

Details

• Journal Article:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  Ogbonnaya, Uchenna C. ; Thiese, Matthew S. ; Allen, Joseph
• Description:
  Objective:
  
  Investigate the associations between drug abuse and the prevalence of the engagement and burnout dichotomy in law professionals.
  
  Methods:
  
  Eligible participants completed a questionnaire where odds ratios of drug abuse and other confounding variables and their association to engagement or burnout were calculated using multiple logistic regression.
  
  Results:
  
  When looking at all law professionals, burnout is a statistically significant predictor for drug abuse (p =0.04, not shown). Law professionals whose burnout scores fell in the highest bin have 4.71 (95% CI [1.38 – 16.08]) times higher odds of having a problem with drug abuse than those whose burnout scores fell in the second bin.
  
  Conclusion:
  
  Study findings showed a possible way to affect the prevalence of drug abuse in law professionals by affecting the engagement and burnout dichotomy.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Burnout, Professional Burnout, Psychological Drug Abuse Lawyers Occupational Health Substance-Related Disorders Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Drug Abuse; Burnout; Engagement; Law Professional; Lawyer; Well-being Professional Workers; Drug Abuse; Drugs; Mental Health; Psychological Factors; Psychological Stress; Suicide; Cross Sectional Studies; Health Surveys; Questionnaires; Epidemiology;
• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 64(7):621-627
• Pubmed ID:
  35732047
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9283266
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  T42 OH008414/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; T42OH008414/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; UL1 TR000105/TR/NCATS NIH HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 8 ; Utah
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  15 pdf pages
• Volume:
  64
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065451
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  University of Utah
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7891afd4b7fa4c5050d6ac73e5bc461e9156da2110769fcfc179b3ebcbc4045649ed68ccadd1dc0971cf59f790482552c633cb07e9b90073f41e2bfca6a9e2ea
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/119394/cdc_119394_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 345.79 KB ]