{"doi":"10.1111/petr.14020","title":"Burnout, professional fulfillment, and post‐traumatic stress among pediatric solid organ transplant teams","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Adverse effects of clinician burnout have been studied across multiple specialties; however, there have been no studies examining rates of burnout among pediatric solid organ transplant teams. This study aimed to measure burnout, work exhaustion, professional fulfillment, and post-traumatic stress symptoms among clinicians and administrators practicing in this high-stress field. METHODS: This cross-sectional study utilized a 50 item web-based survey that included the Personal Fulfillment Index and the IES-R. This survey was distributed across four pediatric solid organ transplant centers in North America. Basic demographics, clinician characteristics, and information regarding wellness and self-care activities were collected. Descriptive and correlational analyses were performed. RESULTS: One hundred and thirty five participants completed the survey, 76% were female and 78% were Caucasian. One-third (34%) of participants endorsed burnout, while 43% reported professional fulfillment. Approximately 15% of respondents endorsed clinically significant levels of post-traumatic stress symptoms related to patient deaths, with female clinicians more likely to endorse symptoms (p = .01). Nearly 80% of participants reported engaging in self-care activities outside of work and only 10% of participants reported participation in hospital-sponsored wellness programs. CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric solid organ transplant team members exhibited moderate levels of burnout, professional fulfillment, and post-traumatic stress. Female clinicians were the most likely to experience both work exhaustion and post-traumatic stress symptoms. Transplant centers are encouraged to consider interventions and programming to improve clinician wellness.","journal":"Pediatric Transplantation","year":2021,"id":199976,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":8,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.8857,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":777056,"name":"Carmel Bogle","orcid":"0000-0002-9230-1497","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":729252,"name":"Heang M. Lim","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":728589,"name":"Amanda D. McCormick","orcid":"0000-0002-4874-854X","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":409335,"name":"Julie Sturza","orcid":"0009-0006-1486-1890","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":374789,"name":"Emily M. Fredericks","orcid":"0000-0002-3110-4983","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":96836,"name":"John C. Magee","orcid":"0000-0001-8416-7905","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":661737,"name":"Elizabeth D. Blume","orcid":"0000-0003-0915-1561","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":333421,"name":"Melissa K. Cousino","orcid":"0000-0002-0041-0830","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":46,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:50:44.479665Z","pmid":"33861499","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}