ABSTRACT

Objective:

In recent years, psychological problems that are caused by working conditions like burn-out syndrome are more commonly observed. In our study, we aimed to evaluate mobbing exposure, factors causing mobbing and precautions for mobbing in residency students who are educated in anaesthesiology and reanimation clinics in Turkey.

Methods:

After obtaining consent from the ethics committee, we sent our questionnaires to the secretariats of the departments by postal mail. Completed questionnaires were collected in our department’s secretariat blindly and randomly mixed. One hundred and one participants were returned the questionnaires. Data was statistically analysed in SPSS 21.0 software programme.

Results:

During residency programme, 63% participants stated have experienced mobbing one or more time. Interestingly, 5.9% participants complained of physical mobbing. Mobbing exposure was more common in females. The most serious new onset psychosomatic symptoms stated during residency were committing suicide (2%), addiction (16%), severe depression (18%), panic attack (8%), more accidents (7%) and tendency of violence (15%). In mobbing group there was statistically significant dissatisfaction rate.

Conclusion:

In professions where mobbing is common, incidences of psychiatric diseases and suicide are increased. Residents who are targets of mobbing should be noticed carefully to ensure good judgement and problems should be inspected objectively in a detailed manner. Anesthesiology socities and other medical professional socities should establish mobbing committees. Thus, mobbing problems can be resolved and healthy career oppurtunities can be presented to residents.