Stress, burnout, and strategies for reducing them: what’s the situation among Canadian family physicians?

OBJECTIVE: To ascertain Canadian family physicians’ levels of stress and burnout and the strategies they use to reduce these problems. DESIGN: Census survey. SETTING: Kitchener-Waterloo, an urban area with a population of approximately 300 000 in southwestern Ontario. PARTICIPANTS: Family physicians. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Scores on the Family Physician Stress Inventory, scores on strategies to reduce personal stress, scores on strategies to …