ArticleJournal of general and family medicine2026
Temporal Trends in Physician Burnout During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.
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Background: To examine how burnout among Japanese internists and primary care physicians evolved from the onset of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic to the post-pandemic period. Methods: We reanalyzed data from five web-based surveys of members of the American College of Physicians-Japan Chapter between January 2020 and April 2024. Burnout was assessed using the Japanese version of the Mini-Z 2.0 survey. The survey dates corresponded to major pandemic phases: early pandemic (January 2020), first-wave peak (June 2020), mid-pandemic (March 2021), post-emergency (December 2022), and recovery phase (April 2024). Temporal trends in burnout prevalence were analyzed using the Cochran-Armitage test. Results: A total of 1099 respondents were included. Burnout prevalence was the highest during the early pandemic (34.6% in January 2020, 34.5% in June 2020), declined modestly during the mid-pandemic phase (31.8% in March 2021), and further decreased to 26.2% by April 2024. A significant linear decline in burnout prevalence was observed over time ( Conclusions: Burnout among Japanese internists and primary care physicians declined significantly from the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic to the recovery phase. However, approximately one-quarter of physicians remained affected in 2024.
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