Response rate Consultation with managers indicated that were around 634 IAPT practitioners in the 15 IAPT services that participated and 212 practitioners (33.4%) were recruited through this route. A further 50 were recruited through the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists website or magazine making a total number of 262. Participants who worked in the service less than 35 hours per week were excluded from this analysis as was the one counsellor who replied as other factors might have affected their responses. The final sample of 201 participants was made up of 105 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP) and 96 High Intensity (HI) therapists. Participant Characteristics Table 1 shows the demographic and job characteristics of the study participants by type of IAPT practitioner. PWPs tended to be younger than HI therapists and had worked for fewer years in mental health services prior to and since joining their present IAPT service. They had higher mean caseloads and more hours of patient contact per week than HI therapists, particularly for patient contact by telephone. In fact 22/105 PWPs reported 30 or more hours a week in patient contact (with the maximum being 40) while this applied to only 2/96 HI therapists. PWPs received case management each week (which generally HI therapists did not) and HI therapists spent more time supervising than PWPs. Table 1 also shows burnout data by type of practitioner. Emotional exhaustion, disengagement and burnout were all higher in PWPs than in HI therapists. Because the profile of characteristics was so different between PWPs and HI therapists the remaining results are presented separately for the two groups of practitioners. [Table 1 around here] Predictors of emotional exhaustion Table 1 shows that mean scores for emotional exhaustion scale were higher for PWPs than HI Therapists. Table 2 shows that stronger agreement that organisational structure and conflicts with other professionals were a source of pressure at work predicted greater emotional exhaustion and disengagement for both PWP and HI therapists. Because these latter two could plausibly ‘predictors’ be considered as consequences of emotional exhaustion and disengagement, they were not included in the multiple regression models which included only the more objective job characteristics. [Tables 2 and 3 around here] Tables 2 and 3 show that mean levels of emotion exhaustion were lower for male PWPs than females and gender became a statistically significant predictor in the multiple regression model.
Response rate Consultation with managers indicated that were around 634 IAPT practitioners in the 15 IAPT services that participated and 212 practitioners (33.4%) were recruited through this route. A further 50 were recruited through the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists website or magazine making a total number of 262. Participants who worked in the service less than 35 hours per week were excluded from this analysis as was the one counsellor who replied as other factors might have affected their responses. The final sample of 201 participants was made up of 105 Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWP) and 96 High Intensity (HI) therapists. Participant Characteristics Table 1 shows the demographic and job characteristics of the study participants by type of IAPT practitioner. PWPs tended to be younger than HI therapists and had worked for fewer years in mental health services prior to and since joining their present IAPT service. They had higher mean caseloads and more hours of patient contact per week than HI therapists, particularly for patient contact by telephone. In fact 22/105 PWPs reported 30 or more hours a week in patient contact (with the maximum being 40) while this applied to only 2/96 HI therapists. PWPs received case management each week (which generally HI therapists did not) and HI therapists spent more time supervising than PWPs. Table 1 also shows burnout data by type of practitioner. Emotional exhaustion, disengagement and burnout were all higher in PWPs than in HI therapists. Because the profile of characteristics was so different between PWPs and HI therapists the remaining results are presented separately for the two groups of practitioners. [Table 1 around here] Predictors of emotional exhaustion Table 1 shows that mean scores for emotional exhaustion scale were higher for PWPs than HI Therapists. Table 2 shows that stronger agreement that organisational structure and conflicts with other professionals were a source of pressure at work predicted greater emotional exhaustion and disengagement for both PWP and HI therapists. Because these latter two ‘predictors’ could plausibly be considered as consequences of emotional exhaustion and disengagement, they were not included in the multiple regression models which included only the more objective job characteristics. [Tables 2 and 3 around here] Tables 2 and 3 show that mean levels of emotion exhaustion were lower for male PWPs than females and gender became a statistically significant predictor in the multiple regression model.
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